pivoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pivo (uncountable)

1. A type of Central and Eastern European pilsner.
   • 1946, The North American Union News: Official Organ North American Union Life Assurance Society, volumes 50–54, page 19 and unknown page:

     Remember boys—I’m telling you these games are getting livelier and more exciting as time goes on and also remember the more members that stay at home the more pivo and sandwiches we attending members have—not only that but all the fun we are having at the same time, is that something to miss—NO NO NO NO —but if you boys want to stay at home, remember the woe is all yours. […] We can honestly say this meeting was worth while attending, pulenty of pivo and eats of all kinds.

   • 1991 December 21, Paul M. Cole, “Palm Trees in Moscow”, in POW/MIA Accounting, volume I (Searching for America’s Missing Servicemen in the Soviet Union), Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, published 2018, →ISBN, chapter 6 (To Moscow via Stockholm and Helsinki), page 268:

     The guys had a case of American Beer from the Pittsburgh brewing company and some Russian pivo (beer – tasted like Pilsner Urquell).

   • 2001, Bob Hicok, “Three Poems”, in Poetry Northwest, volumes 42–43, Seattle, Wash.: Patrician Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:

     But I’m out of coffee, down to three pieces of bread and one pair of shoes that were pillows on the train from Brussels to Belgrade when I didn’t speak the language of the veteran without an arm, we smoked slavic cigarettes and drank pivo and he showed me how to take clothes apart and turn them into a bed.

   • 2001, John F. Sieckhaus, “The Journey Begins”, in Inching Toward Heaven’s Door: A Would-Be Alchemist’s Journey of Faith, Remembrance and Healing, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, book I (An Adventure in Healing), pages 31–32:

     We had a very emotional experience of Czech culture, viewing some of the best that the country had to offer in terms of its art and architecture at Prague, Karlstein and Krivoclat Castles, listening to the music of Smetana as performed by the Czechoslovak String Quartet in Liblice’s grand salon, and drinking pivo (pilsner beer) and slivovitz (plum brandy) in local restaurants where at one point we shared an unforgettable moment with a group of students in a highly risky (to them) rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In”.

   • 2004, Eric Obenauf, Can You Hear Me Screaming?, [Columbus, Oh.]: Two Dollar Radio Publishing, →ISBN, pages 124, 129, 134, and 136:

     For a while I sat in a chair behind him drinking some local pivo, pretending not to read what he had written. […] I looked over at Max, the romantic retard, who just rolled his eyes, finished off his pivo, and left to get us another. […] Everyone from the town was down at the restaurant/everything else, sitting outside at tables and smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee or wine or pivo or slivovice, while the children ran around the docks jumping from boat to boat to boat playing tag. […] I tasted the wine coming out, the margherita pizza with the egg in the middle, the pivo from the ferry ride over.

   • 2006, Angus Bell, “The Village That Beat Poland”, in Slogging the Slavs: A Paranormal Cricket Tour from the Baltic to the Bosphorus, Newcastle upon Tyne: Fat Controller Media, →ISBN, page 102:

     I was overlooking the former Hotel Relax, my car papers safely at my side, a tall glass of pivo in hand.

   • 2009, Bernd Herzogenrath, “Introduction: The Return of Edgar G. Ulmer”, in Bernd Herzogenrath, editor, Edgar G. Ulmer: Essays on the King of the B’s, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 6:

     You only have to walk Olomouc streets (or better—the byroads and back-alleys of the old city center), and you are within a German Expressionist set! The more pivo or slivovice you’ve had, the more forced your perspectives grow. Go to the Tourist Office and see the Hanacka Giant, Olomouc’s closest to the Golem!

   • 2013 December 17, Dolly Niemiec Konwinski with Douglas Williams, “Acknowledgments”, in Summertime Dreams: Yes! Girls Can Play Baseball! Memories and Stories of a Professional Baseball Player, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 13:

     While he would often tell folks his favorite was chocolate ice cream, with his second place prize going to a cold glass of pivo, everyone knew Mom and his two daughters were always his true priorities.

   • 2014, John Wilton, “Janácek and a different type of tune – the music of youth”, in The Hope, London: PublishNation, →ISBN, page 165:

     Even sadder than the fact that by the time he left the bar where the captivating dirty blonde haired dancer had exhibited her talents so well the only people left in the place at around one a.m. were him and a well-built dodgy looking guy sat in one of the corners with his eyes fixed solidly on his half empty glass of pivo.

   • 2024, Donald (Donny) N. Roberson, Jr., The School of Travel: Twenty Years in Central Europe (Croatia and Czech Republic), New York, N.Y.: Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, sections “Michal” and “Football/hooligans”:

     I taught him how to play backgammon, and we had many fun evenings drinking pivo and playing a competition of backgammon, as well as listening to some music and solving all the problems of the world. […] Walking down one street, you would see hundreds of the fans with their same color shirts sitting in cafés and pubs drinking glass after glass of pivo, and then on the other side of the street is the other team’s fans, doing the same.