stingo

From sting + -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋɡəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ

stingo (uncountable)

1. (slang, archaic) Any strong beer.
   • 1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], The Drummer; or, The Haunted House. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1716 (indicated as 1715), →OCLC, Act V, page 46:

     Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?

   • 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     The elevated cavaliers sent […] for two tubs of merry stingo.

   • c. 1824, John Clare, The Toper's Rant:

     For my outside I never need fear me / While warm with real stingo within.

• ingots, tigons, toings, tosing

• IPA^(key): /ˈstin.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: stìn‧go

stingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of stingere

stingo

1. inflection of stings:
   1. definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
   2. definite genitive masculine/feminine plural