beano
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
Abbreviation of beanfeast + -o.
Noun[edit]
beano (plural beanos)
- A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman at the Store”, in Selected Short Stories:
- You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 419:
- ‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’
- (figuratively) Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
beano (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bingo (“game of chance”)
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
beano
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