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Definition of Stengah
1. Noun. (''in Malaya'') whisky and soda. From the Malay ''se tengah'' meaning ''one half''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stengah
1. a mixed drink [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stengah
Literary usage of Stengah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around the World Through Japan by Walter Del Mar (1904)
"... say, whiskey and tonic-water, followed by a stengah (the Malay word for half,
usually pronounced stinger) or split drink, succeeded by a suku, ..."
2. Around the World Through Japan by Walter Del Mar (1904)
"... in the Singapore Club a man is considered abstemious if, before lunch, he has
a " peg " of, say, whiskey and tonic-water, followed by a stengah (the ..."
3. Java and Her Neighbours: A Traveller's Notes in Java, Celebes, the Moluccas by Arthur Stuart Walcott (1914)
"Drivers, porters, and coolies generally speak of the guilder as a "rupiah" and
of a half-guild^- as a "stengah," calling the two and a half guilder piece a ..."
4. The Globular Jottings of Griselda: With Illustrations by Ethel Douglas Hume (1907)
""Now I'll have what you call a 'stinker,'" he announced, and was surprised when
we laughed very much as we helped him to a " whisky stengah" (a split), ..."
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