Beer vs Suds - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}} (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
(uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
(countable) A variety of the above beverages.
To give beer to (someone)
* Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta'' in 1870 , Clement Scott, ''Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes , Robson and Sons,
* 2010 , Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1 , Carolrhoda Lab,
* 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland,
* 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden ,
Beer is a synonym of suds.
As nouns the difference between beer and suds
is that beer is while suds is lather, foam.beer
English
(wikipedia beer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .Noun
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* beer and skittles * beer belly * beer-bust * beer can * beered-up * beer garden * beer goggles * beer gut * beer hall * beerily * beerish * beerless * beer mat * beer muscles * beer parlour * beery * bock beer * champagne taste on a beer budget * craft beer * cry in one's beer * ginger beer * keg beer * ice beer * near beer * root beer * small beer * spruce beer (beer)Descendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l)Verb
(en verb)pages 303–304:
- No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.
page 121:
- “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”
page 124:
- I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’
page 39:
- “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.