Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bevvy v.

to drink; thus bevvying n., drinking.

1908		K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xv: Give the waiter your hat, coat and vest and bevy in.
1934		P. Allingham Cheapjack 111: They just sit in the ’ouse and talk and bevvy till all the money’s gone.
1971		J. Reid speech to gasgow shipbuilders 🌐 There will be no hooliganism, there will be no vandalism, there will be no bevvying because the world is watching us.
1973		(con. mid-1960s) J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed 231: Bevvie – [to] drink.
1995		M. Simpson ‘Prufrock Scoused‘ Catching Up with Hist. 23: After arl the swigging an the bevvyin.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 105: It’s a well-known thing — the more I bevvy, the more I has to find me some grumble.

In derivatives

bevvied (up) (adj.) (also bevied)

drunk.

1960		J. Maclaren-Ross Until Day she Dies 28: Lon and Carl coming backstage, both of them bevvied.
1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 14: The road manager that Ben had provided for us was bevvied.
1973		(con. mid-1960s) J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed 131: See when ma auld man’s bevied, he’s pure needle.
1977		Guardian 29 Aug. 4/5: The language of drink is vivid in Scotland. ‘Blitzed,’ ‘miraculous,’ ‘bevvied up,’ ‘stotious’.
1981		T. Wilkinson Down and Out 180: If you get bevvied one night, you’d have to turn up the following day or they’d ask questions.
1983		K. Hudson Dict. of the Teenage Revolution 14: Bevvied up means drunk.
1999		Observer Rev. 20 June 11: Rob represents the macho-stereotype, especially when ‘bevvied’, capable of numbing his brain and feelings with booze.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 23: All sorts of bevvied-up beauts in cheap work suits, out on the Christmas piss-up.
2001		I. Welsh Glue 85: We didnae want tae git too bevvied.
2014		T.M. Simmler ‘Suicide Chump’ in ThugLit July [ebook] ‘I’m so fucking bevvied up, I won’t remember a thing’.
2017		hubpages.com ‘Roadman Slang 4 Jun. 🌐 Get bevvied - to get very drunk.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 289/1: bevvied to be drunk.

In compounds

bevvy-up (n.)

a drinking session.

1962

R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 53: After a right old bevvy-up at Aristov’s.