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negus2|ˈniːgəs|
[From the name of the inventor, Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732).]
A mixture of wine (esp. port or sherry) and hot water, sweetened with sugar and flavoured.
1743in Etoniana iv. (1865) 70 Warming a little negus. 1753H. Walpole Let. 4 Aug., He desired the water might be warm..; Montagu understood the dialect, and ordered a negus. 1783S. Chapman in Med. Comm. I. 285 He was directed to drink..a little weak red wine negus. 1831T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xii, He wiled away the evening with making a bottle of sherry into negus. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library I. 373 The difference between the stiffest of nautical grogs and the negus provided by thoughtful parents for a child's evening party.
attrib.1848B. D. Walsh Aristoph. 292 note, Socrates then..Filches the negus-ladle. |