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stingo slang.|ˈstɪŋgəʊ|
[f. sting v.1 (in allusion to the sharp taste) + -o, perh. simulating a Sp. or Ital. ending.]
a. Strong ale or beer.
a1635Randolph Hey for Honesty ii. vi, Come, let's in, and drink a Cup of stingo. 1665R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales 32 Returning with a large Quart of mighty Ale, that might compare with Stingo, for it would cut a Feather. 1756Connoisseur No. 105 He would give me a cup of the best Yorkshire Stingo. 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 375 A glass of his Lordship's old Shropshire stingo. 1891N. Gould Double Event 307 Host Barnes had tapped a barrel of double stingo for the occasion.
attrib.1810Splendid Follies II. 157 My stingo cup..was the horn of a d―d fine buffalo. 1861Bentley's Misc. XLIX. 171 In prose fiction, too, has Thomas Hood turned out some stingo samples of storm-brewing. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxvii, Tea-gardens and stingo houses.
b. fig. Vigour, energy, vim; to give (a person) hot stingo = to give it hot s.v. hot a. 11 d. ? Obs.
1885Punch 22 Aug. 86/3 It's rare fun, by Jingo! I give 'em hot stingo. 1927Daily Tel. 19 July 15 To keep in good trim and add stingo to your efforts in sport. 1927Galsworthy in A. A. Horn Ivory Coast Foreword 5 A gorgeous book..full of sheer stingo. 1928Observer 18 Mar. 23/3 Some shanties, sung by Raymond Newell and a chorus, are full of stingo. |