stingo
[ sting-goh ]
nounChiefly British Slang.
strong beer.
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How to use stingo in a sentence
It's all very well for women; but a man, Betty, a man mun ha' a sup of real stingo, lass.
Don't you think, stingo, our landlady could accommodate the gentlemen by the fire-side, with——three chairs and a bolster?
She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver GoldsmithNo. 183 is the Yorkshire stingo public-house, which preserves the name of a celebrated tavern and place of entertainment.
Hampstead and Marylebone | Geraldine Edith MittonThere are booths and tents for the sale of real stingo, and horses are picketed on a hillside in the distance.
Rowlandson the Caricaturist. Second Volume | Joseph GregoBernard did not seem to have enjoyed much more of stingo's society than Lance of his violin's—the produce of the same bounty.
The Pillars of the House, Vol. I (of 2) | Charlotte M. Yonge
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