‣ peeve keir, peeve ken, peevi ken, peevin kain noun a public house, an inn 19-. etymology: from Romany péava ‘to drink’and pīvā ‘water’; the forms peeve, peevan and peevie are also used by known to some native Scots speakers in some areas of Scotland; attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies and BS in TDITA; forms peev, peevie, peevin kain also collected by EMcC/PS; forms peev, peever, peevy also attested in Shelta; peevan collected by Simson (1865) from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; sense 1 and peevin ken collected by RD; also collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; attested by SR, JS, SS, ET and BW note:
pivo is the word for beer in various Eastern European countries including the Czech Republic.
The phrase most common amongst Scots speakers on the peeve meaning ‘a drinking binge’ seems not to be attested in any of my sources.
Grellmann (1787) collected the form Piava; Pi ‘To drink’ from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton collected the forms pee, pióva v ‘to drink’ and píaben, píamus n ‘drink’ from English Gypsies. Canadian Paul Pope (2013) also cites peeve and peevie ‘drink: whisky, beer, wine etc’ and peeven ken, peevin kain ‘a drinking establishment’.