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say it: NEE-guhs
negus is a noun meaning "wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg". It carries one recorded sense.
wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for negus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.