stingo slang.
(ˈstɪŋgəʊ)
[f. sting v.1 (in allusion to the sharp taste) + -o, perh. simulating a Sp. or Ital. ending.]
a. Strong ale or beer.
| a 1635 Randolph Hey for Honesty ii. vi, Come, let's in, and drink a Cup of stingo. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales 32 Returning with a large Quart of mighty Ale, that might compare with Stingo, for it would cut a Feather. 1756 Connoisseur No. 105 He would give me a cup of the best Yorkshire Stingo. 1826 Sporting Mag. XVII. 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. |
| attrib. 1810 Splendid Follies II. 157 My stingo cup..was the horn of a d―d fine buffalo. 1861 Bentley's Misc. XLIX. 171 In prose fiction, too, has Thomas Hood turned out some stingo samples of storm-brewing. 1870 Disraeli Lothair xxvii, Tea-gardens and stingo houses. |
b. fig. Vigour, energy, vim;
to give (a person) hot stingo = to give it hot s.v. hot a. 11 d. ?
Obs.| 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 Galsworthy in A. A. Horn Ivory Coast 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. |