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negus

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈniːɡəs/Part of speech nounSorted egnsuStarts with NEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Esther 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.
  • ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

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