stingo
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stingo
Example Sentences
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She spoke in a strong voice, got tangled up on some state names but finished with plenty of stingo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bearded and ringed, and big, and brown, I sit and toss the stingo down.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
I was a bee, sucking sordid honey from life's fairest flowers, dreaded and shunned on account of my stingo.
From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.
Ther's a music i' thi lingo, Spreeads a charm o'er hill an valley, As a drop ov Yorksher stingo Warms an cheers a body's bally.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
Very old and strong beer, called also stingo.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
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