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.
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Negus
//ˈniːɡəs//
Synonyms for "negus" (15 found)
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25 translations across 21 languages.
Amharic
1 entries- ንጉሥ noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Arabic
1 entries- نَجَاشِيّ noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Bengali
1 entries- নাজাশি noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Bulgarian
2 entries- греяно вино noun (drink made of wine mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, etc.)
- негус noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Esperanto
1 entries- neguso noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
French
2 entries- négous noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
- négus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Ge'ez
1 entries- ንጉሥ noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Georgian
1 entries- ნეგუსი noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
German
2 entries- Negus noun (drink made of wine mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, etc.)
- Negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Hindi
1 entries- नजाशी noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Hungarian
1 entries- négus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Italian
1 entries- negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- negus noun (drink made of wine mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, etc.)
- negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Persian
1 entries- نجاشی noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Polish
1 entries- negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Portuguese
1 entries- negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Romanian
1 entries- negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Russian
1 entries- не́гус noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Spanish
1 entries- negus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Tigrinya
1 entries- ንጉስ noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
Venetan
1 entries- nègus noun (king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia))
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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.
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‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.
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Sir, the Negus of Ethiopia is here in person; and this is the day of our death, doe what you can to saue your selfe, for my part I meane here to die
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