Noun: beno
Sample Sentences
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In cases of continuous intoxication it results in dysentery, fevers, insanity, and drinking beno is the cause of many deaths. [1900, Harper’s History of the War in the Philippines, page 315:]
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I had some beno in my canteen and I took a few nips to steady me. [1925, Cosmopolitan, page 18:]
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Lounging around village shops watching the girls and drinking beno, a potent alcoholic beverage, helped some of the soldiers overcome their boredom. [1975, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Black Americans and the White Man’s Burden, 1898-1903, page 270:]
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He must have been drinking beno for he took a header, and as he went over the boat dipped considerably and of course soaked part of us. [2006, The Journals, page 53:]
Nouns inflected like beno
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Modification of Spanish vino (“wine”). See: Spanish Nouns '
vino'.