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Beer vs Tinnie - What's the difference?

beer | tinnie |

As nouns the difference between beer and tinnie

is that beer is (uncountable) an alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor or beer can be one who is or exists while tinnie is (australia|slang) a of beer.

As a verb beer

is to give beer to (someone).

beer

English

(wikipedia beer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .

Noun

  • (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)
    • , chapter=1 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 . […]”}}
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived 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)
  • 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, pages 303–304:
    • No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.
  • * 2010 , Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1 , Carolrhoda Lab, page 121:
    • “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”
  • * 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124:
    • I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’
  • * 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden , page 39:
    • “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) beere, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is or exists.
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    tinnie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A of beer.
  • * 2005 , Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude , page 170,
    • Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies , and then give her undivided attention when she returns.
  • * 2008 , Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney , Lonely Planet, page 154,
    • In a city where alcohol was once the main currency (see p23), it?s little wonder that drinking is a big part of the social fabric – whether it?s knocking back some tinnies on the beach or meeting mates at the pub.
  • * 2011 , Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over , page 378,
    • I?m forty and Tyrene says if I keep supping the tinnies at this rate it won?t be long before I?m forty stone! I?m nineteen stone right now and if I had a dollar for every time Tyrene called me a “big, fat, lazy bastard”, I could charter a yacht and sail to the Whitsundays and we live in Perth!
  • (Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
  • * 2003 , Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets , page 355,
    • The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out.
  • * 2007 , Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island , page 239,
    • Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
  • * 2009 , Rebecca Pannell, Seachange, Where Fish Fly'', Susan Hosking, Rick Hosking, Rebecca Pannell, Nena Bierbaum (editors), ''Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes , page 56,
    • The miracles seem to have followed Kevin and Trevor who have remarkably travelled over fifty-eight nautical miles in little more than a tinnie , encountering all sorts of astounding natural phenomena such as enormous whales and strangely behaving sharks, bixarre star patterns and odd schools of fish.
  • (New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.

    • Derived terms

    * tinnie house

    See also

    * tinny

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