subs. (old).—Strong liquor: spec. HUMMING ALE (q.v.).—B. E. and GROSE.
1638. RANDOLPH, Hey for Honesty, ii. 6. Come, let’s in, and drink a cup of STINGO.
1661. Merry Drolleries [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, ii. 98. Among the substantives are … STINGO, brimmer, Jew’s harp].
c. 1650. BRATHWAITE, Barnaby’s Journal (1723), 125.
| I drank STINGO | |
| With a butcher and Domingo. |
1697. Praise of YORKSHIRE STINGO, 29. Such STINGOE, nappy, pure ale they have found.
1774. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 79.
| He best can understand their linguo | |
| And tell ’em where to find good STINGO. |
1821. P. EGAN, Real Life in London, vii. Let us fortify … with a horn or two of humming STINGO.
1840. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘A Lay of St. Dunstan.’
| Thys Franklyn, Syrs, he brewed goode ayle, | |
| And he called it Rare goode STYNGO! |
