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Neʹgus

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So called from Colonel Francis Negus, who first concocted it, in the time of George I.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Need Makes the old Wife Trot
Needs must when the Devil Drives
Needfire
Needful (The)
Needham
Needle
Negative Pregnant (A)
Negro
Negro Offspring
Negroni
Negus
Nehallenia
Nehushtan (2 Kings xviii. 4)
Neiges dAntan (The)
Neken
Neksheb
Nell’s Point
Nem. Con
Nem. Diss
Nemean Games (The)
Nemean Lion (The)