stingo en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈstɪŋɡəʊ/
Etymology
Etymology tree English sting Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O ▲ Middle English o English oh English -o English stingo From sting + -o.
Meanings
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(archaic, slang, uncountable) Any strong beer.
For my outside I never need fear me / While warm with real stingo within.
c. 1824, John Clare, The Toper's Rant:The elevated cavaliers sent […]for two tubs of merry stingo.
1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?
1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], The Drummer; or, The Haunted House. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1716 (indicated as 1715), →OCLC, Act V, page 46: