Where does “B-drinker” come from?
B-drinker (English) comes from English B-drink, from English B-girl, from English bargirl, from English Bar, from German bär, from Middle High German bër, from Old High German beri, from Proto-West Germanic baʀi.
B-drinker (English): Someone who drinks a B-drink; a young woman hired to sit at a bar and induce the customers to buy her drinks, or spend money at the bar; a B-girl
Definitions
- Someone who drinks a B-drink; a young woman hired to sit at a bar and induce the customers to buy her drinks, or spend money at the bar; a B-girl
Ancestry of “B-drinker”, step by step
B-drinker traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English B-drink
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | B-drink | A drink designed to look like whisky (or some other alcoholic drink) but which is actually cold tea or similar, as drunk by a woman trying to entice men in a club, bar etc to spend more money |
| 2 | English | B-girl | A woman employed to talk to customers in a bar... |
| 3 | English | bargirl | A female who works as a hostess in a bar,... |
| 4 | English | Bar | A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length |
| 5 | German | bär | — |
| 6 | Middle High German | bër | bear |
| 7 | Old High German | beri | A berry |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | baʀi | berry |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | bazją | berry |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |