Negus

Definition: Negus

Negus

Noun

1. Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg.

Date "negus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

"Negus" is a common misspelling or typo for: genus, magus, nevus, nexus.

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Negus So called from Colonel Francis Negus, who first concocted it, in the time of George I. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms 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.

Crosswords: Negus

Non-English Usage: "Negus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (Negus), Swedish (Negus).

Domain	Title
Books	A tour of twelve great country houses with Arthur Negus (reference) �thiopien blickt in die Zukunft : vom Negus zu Revolution und Reform (reference) Going for a song: English furniture; Arthur Negus talks to Max Robertson (reference) Il Libro della Luce del Negus Zar'a Ya'qob (Mashafa Berhan), I. (reference) Il negus : vita e morte dell'ultimo re dei re (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Negus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Negus" is used about 18 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	94.44%	17	85,106
Noun (singular)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "negus" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Negus	Last name	400	22,041
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "negus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Pije Me Verë. (various references)

Arabic		‏النجاشي لقب إمبراطور الحبشة. (various references)

Bulgarian		Негус. (various references)

French		Négus. (various references)

Greek		�'ασιλεύσ Αιθιοπίασ, Θερμό � οτό Από �"λυκό ίρασί. (various references)

Hungarian		négus, Fûszeres Forralt Bor, fűszeres forralt bor, abesszínia császára. (various references)

Pig Latin		egusnay.(various references)

Romanian		Negus, Împãrat Al Etiopiei. (various references)

Russian		Негус. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		naziv abisinskih vladara. (various references)

Swedish		Negus. (various references)

Turkish		Negüs, Habeş Hükümdarı, Þarap Ve Sıcak Su Karışımı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "negus": neguses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "negus" (pronounced nē"gus)
3	-g u s	analogous, Argus, asparagus, bodegas, bogus, Degas, dingus, esophagus, fungus, heterozygous, homologous, homozygous, humongous, sarcophagus.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: genus.
	Words within the letters "e-g-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: engs, gens, genu, gnus, guns, snug, sung.
	-2 letters: eng, ens, gen, gnu, gun, nus, seg, sen, sue, sun, uns, use.
	-3 letters: en, es, ne, nu, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: genius, gunsel, lunges, nudges, ungues, unpegs.
	+2 letters: angelus, augends, blunges, bungees, bungles, cangues, dengues, engluts, engulfs, enoughs, ensuing, fungoes, gangues, genuses, gerunds, glutens, grunges, guanase, guenons, guineas, guldens, gunites, gunless, gunnels, gunners, gunnies, gunsels, gurnets, gurneys, hungers, igneous, jungles, lagunes, langues, lounges, lungees, lungers, neguses, nudgers, nuggets, nutmegs, plunges, pungles, repugns, reusing, snugged, snugger, snuggle, sueding, surgeon, tongues, uncages, unglues.
	+3 letters: agendums, angulose, augments, beguines, bemusing, blueings, blungers, bugbanes, bunglers, burgeons, defusing, dinguses, dudgeons, dungeons, dungiest, dunnages, effusing, enginous, ensuring, epigonus, eugenias, eugenics, eugenist, eugenols, euglenas, excusing, expunges, funguses, gauntest, generous, geniuses, gerenuks, glumness, glunches, granules, grunters, gruntles, guanases, guanines, gudgeons, guerdons, guernsey, guessing, guesting, gunfires, gunwales, guylines, hegumens, hugeness, indulges, ingenues, languets, legumins, ligneous, loungers, misbegun, mungoose, mutagens, nonguest, nutsedge, penguins, perusing, plungers, questing, recusing, refusing, rescuing, resprung, restrung, resuming, roughens, rungless, sanguine, sauteing, scrounge, securing, seducing, segueing, seigneur, smugness, snuggery, snuggest, snuggies, snuggled, snuggles, snugness, speargun, sturgeon, subagent, subgenre, subgenus, supering, surgeons, toughens, trudgens, tungsten, tunnages, ugliness, ungloves, unguents, unhinges, unitages, unseeing, unsewing, unsexing, unsigned, ushering, youngers, youngest.
	+4 letters: analogues, angeluses, anguished, anguishes, angulates, argentums, arguments, assurgent, becursing, biogenous, bludgeons, bourgeons, bungholes, burgonets, busheling, censuring, censusing, cousinage, cultigens, dangerous, degusting, delousing, distingue, dungarees, ensouling, enthusing, epigonous, epigynous, erogenous, espousing, esquiring, eugenists, exogenous, expulsing, expungers, figulines, figurines, fungibles, gaudiness, gauntlets, gauntness, gauntries, geepounds, genitures, geraniums, gesturing, glandules, glutelins, glutenous, grandeurs, granulose, greenbugs, grounders, groundsel, gruelings, gruffness, grungiest, guanosine, guaranies, guardsmen, gueridons, guernseys, guidances, guildsmen, gumminess, gunkholes, gunmetals, gunneries, gunpapers, gushiness, gusseting, gustiness, gutsiness, harangues, hegumenes, houseling, hungriest, impugners, indulgers, ingenious, ingenuous, insurgent, intrigues, jelutongs, jongleurs, judgments, jungliest, langouste, languages, linguines, longevous, longhouse, longueurs, lustering, magnesium, measuring, merengues, meringues, mugginess, mungooses, mustering, newsgroup, nonguests, noseguard, nutsedges, oppugners, outdesign, outranges, outseeing, overswung, overusing, oxtongues, perfusing, poundages, presuming, pudginess, rehousing, reissuing, replunges, repulsing, resulting, resurgent, resurging, roughness, runagates, russeting, sanguines, scrounged, scrounger, scrounges, secluding, seigneurs, seigneury, shogunate, signature, sinologue, slanguage, sleuthing, spearguns, squeaking, squealing, squeezing, squegging, sturgeons, subagency, subagents, subgenera, subgenres, subregion, subvening, suckering, suffering, sugarcane, summering, sundering, supergene, surcingle, surveying, synagogue, teguments, toughness, trudgeons, tungstate, tungstens, umangites, unceasing, uncharges, underages, underdogs, undergods, undergoes, ungulates, unmeshing, unmingles, unsealing, unseaming, unseating, unselling, unsetting, unsighted, untangles, unweights, upsending, upsetting, urgencies, vagueness, vesturing, youngness, youngster.
	+5 letters: aubergines, augmenters, augmentors, augustness, autogenies, autogenous, autosexing, becrusting, bescouring, beshouting, besmudging, besmutting, bespousing, bestudding, blustering, bunglesome, burgundies, bushelling, bushranger, clustering, configures, conjugates, counseling, cousinages, cunningest, curtseying, debruising, defocusing, degaussing, desugaring, disgruntle, encourages, encrusting, endogamous, endogenous, ensanguine, entourages, entrusting, equalising, eugenicist, euglenoids, eulogising, exhausting, extinguish, fenugreeks, flustering, fungicides, gallinules, gangbuster, gangrenous, gardenfuls, garnitures, gaucheness, gazehounds, gelatinous, generously, genuflects, germaniums, gerundives, gesundheit, gluconates, glumnesses, glutamines, gluttonies, gramineous, granulates, granulites, granuloses, greenhouse, greenstuff, greyhounds, groundless, groundsels, groundsmen, grubbiness, gruellings, grumpiness, guanidines, guanosines, guarantees, guaranties, guidelines, guiltiness, gumshoeing, gunpowders, gunrunners, gunslinger, gutterings, halogenous, haranguers, hegumenies, homogenous, houselling, hugenesses, humdingers, hungriness, immunogens, indigenous, insurgence, insurgency, insurgents, intriguers, judgements, langoustes, languished, languisher, languishes, leguminous, longhouses, longitudes, lungfishes, lutestring, magnesiums, magnitudes, malaguenas, megafaunas, monologues, mudslinger, naughtiest, nauseating, nebulising, negritudes, neighbours, neuralgias, neuroglias, newsgroups, nongaseous, nonlegumes, noseguards, nutgrasses, oleaginous, outdesigns, outselling, outserving, overstrung, percussing, perigynous, persuading, pleasuring, pressuring, pungencies, reaccusing, rearousing, reassuming, reassuring, refocusing, reinfusing, reinsuring, repursuing, requesting, resaluting, resecuring, resounding, restudying, restuffing, resurgence, roughnecks, ruggedness, russetings, russetting, sandgrouse, sanguinely, sauntering, scattergun, scheduling, scroungers, scroungier, scunnering, scuppering, scuttering, septupling, sequencing, sextupling, shogunates, shotgunned, shotgunner, shuddering, shuttering, signatures, sinologues, slanguages, slubbering, slumbering, smudginess, smugnesses, snuggeries, snugnesses, soundstage, spelunking, sputtering, squelching, stoutening, stupefying, stuttering, subceiling, subediting, suberising, suberizing, subgenuses, subheading, subjecting, subleasing, subletting, submanager, submerging, submersing, subpenaing, subregions, subsegment, subserving, subtending, subverting, succeeding, sufferings, sugarcanes, suggesting, suggestion, summerlong, sunglasses, superagent, supergenes, supergiant, superlying, surceasing, surcingles, surfeiting, surveyings, suspecting, suspending, synagogues, tongueless, treasuring, trusteeing, tungstates, turgencies, turgescent, turgidness, uglinesses, unassigned, unassuaged, unbandages, undergirds, undergrads, underlings, underslung, underwings, undigested, undressing, ungenerous, ungodliest, unleashing, unpleasing, unscrewing, unsettling, unshelling, unspeaking, unsphering, unsteeling, unstepping, unswearing, unswerving, unveilings, upstepping, upsweeping, upswelling, upwellings, youngsters.
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