beano

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of beanfeast +‎ -o.

Noun

beano (plural beanos)

  1. 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.’
  2. (figuratively) Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.

Etymology 2

Noun

beano (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of bingo (“game of chance”)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.a.no/
  • Rhymes: -ɛano
  • Hyphenation: bè‧a‧no

Verb

beano

  1. third-person plural present indicative of beare

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