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Stingo   Listen
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Stingo  n.  Old beer; sharp or strong liquor. (Old Slang) "Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow?"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stingo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rads of fleets and armies made sad messes, And stand in need of verbal calcitration; When—let's say ASHMEAD-BARTLETT—saves the nation In the great name of glorious Saint Jingo; When BULL gives toko or delivers stingo. To Fuzzy-Wuzzy, or such foolish savages; When our great guns commit most gallant ravages Among the huts of some unhappy village, Where naughty "niggers" have gone in for pillage; When SOMEONE condescends to be high-born, Or deigns to die, who now shall toot the horn, Or twang the lyre, emitting ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893 • Various

... anyway," replied the sailor as he edged towards the door. "But if you'll say when the real old stingo is on tap, I'll show you how ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace



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