Green’s Dictionary of Slang

buvare n.

also bovary
[Polari]

a drink.

[UK](con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor III 191/2: After our ‘mungare’ and ‘buvare’ (that’s what we call eat and drink, and I think it’s broken Italian).
[UK]R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 127: [M]any seem more interested in the complimentary bovaries and munja.