Binge
mid 19th century: from English dialect binge ‘to soak a wooden vessel’.
wiktionary
From Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge(“to soak”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam(“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).
etymonline
binge (n.)
1854, "drinking bout," also (v.) "drink heavily, soak up alcohol;" dialectal use of binge "soak" (a wooden vessel). Said to have been originally as a dialect word: Binge is noted in Evans' "Leicestershire Words, Phrases and Proverbs" (London, 1848) as a dialect verb for "To soak in water a wooden vessel, that would otherwise leak," to make the wood swell. He adds that it was extended locally to excessive drinking ("soaking"). Sense extended c. World War I to include eating as well as drinking. Binge-watching is from 1996. Related: Binged; bingeing.
