Negus

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈniːɡəs/

Origin

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

Full definition of negus

Noun

1. A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water.
• 1857, Anthony_Trollope, , Volume the Second, page 177 (ISBN 1857150570)And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.
• 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, , Chapter VII, Section viEsther began … to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.
• 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 258:‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

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