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STINGO

Definition: STINGO

STINGO

Noun

1. Old beer; sharp or strong liquor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Stingo \Stin"go\, noun. [From Sting.]. (Websters 1913)

"STINGO" is a common misspelling or typo for: sating, singe, sting, stinger, stingy, string, stung.


Specialty Definition: STINGO

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

STINGO. Strong beer, or other liquor. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: STINGO

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: STINGO

Specialty definitions using "STINGO": HUM CAPKNOCK ME DOWN. (references)

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Commercial Usage: STINGO

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: STINGO

"STINGO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STINGO" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STINGO

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stingo

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STINGO

Language Translations for "STINGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

birrë e fortë (nog). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

силна бира. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hév (ardor, ardour, elan, fire, heat, pathos, vehemence, verve, warmth, zeal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingostay

   

Portuguese

  

cerveja forte (entire, nappy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

крепкое пиво (knock down, mum). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

staro pivo, jako pivo (nappy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cerveza fuerte (mum). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

міцне пиво (bub). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự sốt sắng (fire). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: STINGO

Derivations

Words beginning with "STINGO": stingos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "STINGO"

Words rhyming with "STINGO" (pronounced 'Stin"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, imago, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, sago, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Subimago, Suffrago. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STINGO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ingots, tigons.

Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: ingot, sting, tigon, tings, tongs.

-2 letters: gins, gist, gits, into, ions, nits, nogs, sign, sing, snit, snog, snot, song, ting, tins, togs, tong, tons.

-3 letters: gin, git, gos, got, ins, ion, its, nit, nog, nos, not, ons, sin, sit, son, sot, tin, tis, tog, ton.

-4 letters: go, in, is, it, no, on, os, si.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: agonist, costing, gitanos, gnomist, gnostic, hosting, ousting, outings, outsing, posting, sooting, sorting, stingos, stoking, stoning, stoping, storing, stowing, tiglons, tossing, tousing, trigons.

 

+2 letters: agnostic, agonists, antilogs, antismog, biltongs, boasting, boatings, bongoist, boosting, coasting, coatings, egestion, escoting, foisting, footings, frosting, genitors, ghosting, gigatons, gnomists, gnostics, goatskin, histogen, hoisting, ignitors, jingoist, joisting, jostling, jottings, jousting, kingpost, mitogens, nothings, organist, outgains, outgrins, outrings, outsings, positing, postings, ringtoss, roasting, roosting, rousting, scooting, scouting, shooting, shorting, shotting, shouting, signpost, slotting, snooting, snorting, snouting, solating, soothing, sopiting, southing, sporting, spotting, spouting, stobbing, stocking, stodging, stomping, stooging, stooking, stooling, stooping, stopping, storming, storying, stroking, strowing, stroying, swotting, toasting, tonights, toolings, toppings, tourings, tousling, worsting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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