| 释义 |
pongelo slang.|ˈpɒŋgələʊ|
Also pongelow.
[Etym. obscure.]
Beer. Also attrib.
1864Hotten Slang Dict. 204 Pongelow, beer, half-and-half. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I Am I. ix. 130 ‘He stood sam for a pot o' pongelo,’ continued Mr. Scaffers, ‘and narchurly we got talkin'.’ 1898A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican viii. 185 Some well-known publican has given twenty thousand pounds for the local pongelo palace, with the plate-glass saloon bars. 1899Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 5/2, I hope **** is quite well and keeping himself allright [sic] and not soaking to [sic] much pongelow. 1899H. Wyndham Soldiers of Queen 256 One night I had a drop too much ‘pongelow’, and there was a bit of a row. 1905Daily Chron. 2 Mar. 4/5 You said, ‘What're you goin' to 'ave?’ an' the pongelos flow'd free as advice. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 199/1 Pongelo, (Anglo-Indian Army), pale ale—but relatively any beer. |