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单词 stingo
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stingon.

/ˈstɪŋɡəʊ/
Etymology: < sting v.1 (in allusion to the sharp taste) + -o, perhaps simulating a Spanish or Italian ending.
slang.
a. Strong ale or beer.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > [noun] > strong ale or beer
Old Pharaoh1648
stingo1651
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty ii. vi. 19/1 Come let's in and drink a Cup of stingo.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 32 Returning with a large Quart of mighty Ale, that might compare with Stingo, for it would cut a Feather.
1756 Connoisseur No. 105. ⁋3 He would give me a cup of the best Yorkshire Stingo.
1826 Sporting Mag. 17 375 A glass of his Lordship's old Shropshire stingo.
1891 N. Gould Double Event 307 Host Barnes had tapped a barrel of double stingo for the occasion.
attributive.1810 Splendid Follies II. 157 My stingo cup..was the horn of a d——d fine buffalo.1861 Bentley's Misc. 49 171 In prose fiction, too, has Thomas Hood turned out some stingo samples of storm-brewing.1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxvii Tea-gardens and stingo houses.
b. figurative. Vigour, energy, vim; to give (a person) hot stingo = to give it hot at give v. Phrases 1c(a) ? Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]
greennesseOE
lustinessc1325
forcea1375
vigourc1386
virrc1575
vigour1602
nerve1605
vivacity1649
vis1650
actuosity1660
amenity1661
vogue1674
energy1783
smeddum1790
dash1796
throughput1808
feck1811
go1825
steam1826
jism1842
vim1843
animalism1848
fizz1856
jasm1860
verve1863
snap1865
sawdusta1873
élan1880
stingo1885
energeticism1891
sprawl1894
zip1899
pep1908
jazz1912
zoom1926
toe1963
zap1968
stank1997
1885 Punch 22 Aug. 86/3 It's rare fun, by Jingo! I give 'em hot stingo.
1927 Daily Tel. 19 July 15 To keep in good trim and add stingo to your efforts in sport.
1927 J. Galsworthy in ‘A. A. Horn’ & E. Lewis Trader Horn Foreword 5 A gorgeous book..full of sheer stingo.
1928 Observer 18 Mar. 23/3 Some shanties, sung by Raymond Newell and a chorus, are full of stingo.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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