zingho, n.

zingho
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Revised 2021

# † zinghonoun

## Earlier version

- zingho in OED Second Edition (1989)

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zingho mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zingho. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the mid 1700s.

### Where does the noun zingho come from?

Earliest known use

mid 1700s

The only known use of the noun zingho is in the mid 1700s.

OED's earliest evidence for zingho is from 1743, in a letter by H. Mann.

zingho is apparently a borrowing from Italian.

Etymons: Italian zinco.

### Nearby entries

1. zing, int. & n. 1875–
2. zingana, n.¹ 1883
3. zingana, n.² 1911–
4. Zingani, n. 1581–1879
5. Zingara, n. 1756–
6. Zingaro, n. 1600–
7. zingel, n. 1803–
8. zingelin perch, n. 1803
9. zinger, n. 1906–
10. Zingg, n. 1941–
11. zingho, n.1743
12. zingiber, n.?1720–
13. zingiberaceous, adj. 1821–
14. zingily, adv. 1951–
15. zinginess, n. 1938–
16. zinging, n. 1921–
17. zinging, adj. 1915–
18. zingingly, adv. 1952–
19. zingo, int. 1906–
20. zingy, adj. 1938–
21. Zinjanthropus, n. 1959–

## Etymology

### Summary

Apparently a borrowing from Italian.
Etymon: Italian zinco.
Apparently an alteration of Italian zinco zinc n. (1730 or earlier).

## Meaning & use

Obsolete. rare.

1. 1743
   Zinc.
   Apparently only used in the correspondence cited in the quots.
   1. 1743

      > He [sc. Carlo Ginori, Italian porcelain manufacturer] talks to me much about cobalt and zingho, two minerals which he says are found in England, and which would be vastly useful to him in composing the colours for the painting his China.

      H. Mann, Letter 12 March in H. Walpole, Correspondence (1954) vol. XVIII. 184
   2. 1743

      > He promised me too to go to Lord Islay to know what cobolt and zingho are.

      H. Walpole, Letter 10 June in Correspondence (1954) vol. XVIII. 250
   metal industry chemistry
   1. zinc 1651–
      A hard bluish-white metal (commercially known as spelter, n.), brittle at ordinary temperatures, but malleable and ductile between 200° and 250°F…
   2. spelter 1661–
      Zinc. (Now only Commerce) Also locally applied to various ores.
   3. zingho 1743
      Zinc.
   4. Zn 1814–
      The element zinc.
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   1. zinc 1651–
      A hard bluish-white metal (commercially known as spelter, n.), brittle at ordinary temperatures, but malleable and ductile between 200° and 250°F…
   2. spelter 1661–
      Zinc. (Now only Commerce) Also locally applied to various ores.
   3. zingho 1743
      Zinc.
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zingho, n. was revised in March 2021.

zingho, n. was last modified in December 2024.