Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mug, especially one for beer, usually holding about a pint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An earthenware mug, especially one designed to hold beer.
- noun An obsolete Scotch spelling of
steen , steen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
Steen .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
beer mug , usually made ofceramic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mug intended for serving beer
- noun experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Franken "stein" is a liberal buffon and the people of minnesota that voted for this idiot are just as stupid as Franken.
Franken takes on Lieberman as tensions builds in Senate 2009
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I own the big beer barrel "S" and the giant German beer stein from the back of the bar.
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Diane Fein (Ken) stein is reaping incredible profits through her husbands association with Bechtel Group Inc.,
Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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But then, if the world followed your “cut and run” philosophy, we’d be hoisting ein stein, und eine Platte von schnitzel mit schpetzel, gefolgt von Strudel.
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His new friends have violent reactions to any name that ends in ---- stein.
Sound Politics: Mail Ballot Horror Show (XXIX): Ballot parties for people who can't speak English 2006
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Somewhere along the way it was shortened and the suffix 'stein' was removed.
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If Müntze is a complex and very human Nazi, he's counterbalanced by the presence of his hulking, maniacally leering underling Franken (Waldemar Kobus), who's only missing a "stein" (the Jewish last name of the film's heroine, of course) to turn him into the monster he so clearly represents.
2/11: Black Book Ed Howard 2008
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If Müntze is a complex and very human Nazi, he's counterbalanced by the presence of his hulking, maniacally leering underling Franken (Waldemar Kobus), who's only missing a "stein" (the Jewish last name of the film's heroine, of course) to turn him into the monster he so clearly represents.
Archive 2008-02-01 Ed Howard 2008
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The loud hubbub of conversation, -- nearly all in German, -- the shouts of the waiters, the noise of their footfalls upon the stone floor, the sound of mugs being placed upon tables and of Max draining his "stein" of beer, bridged the hiatus between the ending of Max's narrative and the beginning of my own:
Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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Harvath recalled the stein that Hellfried Leydicke had above his bar and half-assumed that Gerda Putzkammer had been another helpful outside supporter of Gary’s team.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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