stingo
Noun
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Noun
stingo (uncountable)
- (slang, archaic) strong beer
- 1715, Joseph Addison, The Drummer, or The Haunted House
- Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow?
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. [...] In Four Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685 ↗: - For my outside I never need fear me / While warm with real stingo within.
- 1715, Joseph Addison, The Drummer, or The Haunted House
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