NEGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negus mean? 

• NEGUS (noun)
  The noun NEGUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NEGUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("negus" is a kind of...):

mulled wine (wine heated with sugar and spices and often citrus fruit)

Meronyms (substance of "negus"):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

 Context examples 

He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Leah, make a little hot negus and cut a sandwich or two: here are the keys of the storeroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Advise was his word, but it was the advice of absolute power, and she had only to rise, and, with Mr. Crawford's very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, one moment and no more, to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and negus, sore-footed and fatigued, restless and agitated, yet feeling, in spite of everything, that a ball was indeed delightful.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Chillip shook his head, stirred his negus, and sipped it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I acknowledged this compliment, and ordered the negus, which was soon produced.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I replied with such an expressive look, that Mr. Chillip was emboldened by that, and the negus together, to give his head several short shakes, and thoughtfully exclaim, Ah, dear me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He did not actually stagger under the negus; but I should think his placid little pulse must have made two or three more beats in a minute, than it had done since the great night of my aunt's disappointment, when she struck at him with her bonnet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have no hesitation in saying, said Mr. Chillip, fortifying himself with another sip of negus, between you and me, sir, that her mother died of it—or that tyranny, gloom, and worry have made Mrs. Murdstone nearly imbecile.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found it not difficult, in the excitement of Mr. Chillip's own brain, under his potations of negus, to divert his attention from this topic to his own affairs, on which, for the next half-hour, he was quite loquacious; giving me to understand, among other pieces of information, that he was then at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house to lay his professional evidence before a Commission of Lunacy, touching the state of mind of a patient who had become deranged from excessive drinking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)