beano
nounUK /ˈbiːnəʊ/
Etymology Clipping of beanfeast + -o.
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A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
- You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman at the Store”, in Selected Short Stories:
- 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.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
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- ‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 419:
- “Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.”2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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Figuratively Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.