Beano

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈbiːnəʊ/

Origin

Abbreviation of beanfeast.

Full definition of beano

Noun

1. A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
• 1912, Katherine Manfield, "The Woman at the Store", Selected Short Stories:You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.
• Wodehouse Offing|XIII|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, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 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.----