pongelo n.
1. beer, esp. pale ale or half-and-half.
![]() | Vocabulum 69: pongelo Drink; liquor. | |
, , | ![]() | Sl. Dict. 204: PONGE, or pongelow, beer, half-and-half; the term is also used as a verb, [...] ‘let’s pongelow, shall we!’. |
![]() | London & Provincial Entr’acte 15 Oct. 3/1: Of cash [they] were rather low, [...] they could drink a Pot of ‘Pongelo’ / [...] / For ‘Pongelo’ was nothing more, than common half and half. | |
![]() | Leeds Times 28 Mar. 6/5: Blow them as ’ud rob a poor bloke of his ponghelo. | |
![]() | Illus. Police News 23 Oct. 3/3: Here he quaffs his ‘pongelo,’ which is his name for half-and-half. | |
![]() | press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 231: A penny’s worth of spotted leopard is not a bad way of filling up the space of the internals, though spotted leopard may make you have to squander some rhino in pongelow. | |
![]() | Sporting Times 21 Feb. 5/4: Pongelo was the only booze, and lucky was the literateur who could afford to stand even that luxury. | |
![]() | Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Pongelow, malt liquor. | |
![]() | Regiment 27 Jan. 288/1: Many of the terms used [in the British Army] are derived from India [...] Beer is variously known as ‘soup,’ ‘medicine,’ ‘pongelo,’ &c . | |
![]() | 🎵 While the ‘pongelow’ was flowin’, none of us to bed was goin’. | [perf. Marie Lloyd] The Coster’s Wedding|
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 14 Apr. 1/1: The solicitor in the know prefers pekoe to pongelo. | |
![]() | ‘Haning ’Em Out to Dry’ [monologue] There were a thousand tongues all in a row / Waiting to sample the ‘Pongelow’. | |
![]() | Cockney At Home 53: Gimme a casual pal, now and then [...] any money to buy the pongelo with. | |
![]() | (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 227: Pongelow: Beer. | |
![]() | True Drunkard’s Delight 228: If you particularly call for beer you may take your choice of [...] ponge, pongello, pongelow, or pongellorum. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
![]() | Sporting Times 22 Mar. 2/2: One who would do well in the four-half or ‘London pongelo’ department. | |
![]() | A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 185: Some well-known publican has given twenty thousand pounds for the local pongelo palace. |