mongo
See also: MONGO, Mongo, möngö, and môngò
English
Etymology 1
Unknown
Noun
mongo (uncountable)
- (New York City) Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage. [since the 1970s or 80s]
- 1984, [NYC] Issue 1-6, page 51:
- The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabilitation program, which is the first since the Depression, the Sanmen never had their own furnishings.” Prior to the show, the Sanmen voted on the worst facilities in the system and Ukeles selected the exhibition mongo from them—shabby, broken-down furniture, walls cluttered with cheap […]
- 2006, Fine Books & Collections, volume 4, page 56, reviewing MONGO: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha (2004):
- [Mongo] refers to trash, or more specifically, to treasure found in trash: books, artifacts, furniture, even food. Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve around mongo. Those obsessed with mongo often live on the margins, […]
- 2013, Robin Nagle, Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks, →ISBN:
- Loading out on house-to-house can take many hours, but such routes have other perks, especially for someone who likes to mongo. As a noun, “mongo” is Sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from the trash, with an understanding that the definition of “treasure” is both broad and personal. As a verb, “to mongo” is to look for and rescue such wealth. Sal Federici didn't mongo, but he tolerated his partner's predilection for it. Ray Kurtz was not the district's acknowledged mongo king, […]
- 1984, [NYC] Issue 1-6, page 51:
Further reading
- Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Noun
mongo (plural mongos)
- Clipping of mongoloid.
Anagrams
- moong
Chuukese
Verb
mongo
- to eat
Finnish
Etymology
Ultimately from Mongolian мөнгө (möngö).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoŋːo/, [ˈmo̞ŋːo̞]
- Rhymes: -oŋːo
- Syllabification(key): mon‧go
Noun
mongo
- möngö (one 100th of tugrik, the currency of Mongolia)
Declension
| Inflection of mongo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mongo | mongot | |
| genitive | mongon | mongojen | |
| partitive | mongoa | mongoja | |
| illative | mongoon | mongoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mongo | mongot | |
| accusative | nom. | mongo | mongot |
| gen. | mongon | ||
| genitive | mongon | mongojen | |
| partitive | mongoa | mongoja | |
| inessive | mongossa | mongoissa | |
| elative | mongosta | mongoista | |
| illative | mongoon | mongoihin | |
| adessive | mongolla | mongoilla | |
| ablative | mongolta | mongoilta | |
| allative | mongolle | mongoille | |
| essive | mongona | mongoina | |
| translative | mongoksi | mongoiksi | |
| instructive | — | mongoin | |
| abessive | mongotta | mongoitta | |
| comitative | — | mongoineen | |
| Possessive forms of mongo (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | mongoni | mongomme |
| 2nd person | mongosi | mongonne |
| 3rd person | mongonsa | |
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔn.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -ɔnɡo
- Hyphenation: mòn‧go
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Mongolian мөнгө (möngö).
Noun
mongo m (invariable)
- möngö (one hundredth of a tugrik)
Etymology 2
Probably of Bantu origin.
Adjective
mongo (invariable)
- of or pertaining to the Mongo people
Noun
mongo m or f by sense (invariable)
- one who is part of the Mongo people
Noun
mongo m (uncountable)
- Mongo (Bantu language)
Further reading
- mongo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams
- gnomo
Portuguese
Etymology
Clipping of mongoloide.
Noun
mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)
- (slang) idiot
Adjective
mongo (feminine monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas)
- (slang, derogatory) idiot; fool; retarded
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Mongo.
Noun
mongo m (plural mongos)
- möngö
Declension
Declension of mongo
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) mongo | mongoul | (niște) mongos | mongosi |
| genitive/dative | (unui) mongo | mongoului | (unor) mongos | mongoslor |
| vocative | mongoule | mongoslor | ||
References
- mongo in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Noun
mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)
- (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiot
Adjective
mongo (feminine monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas)
- (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiotic
- Synonyms: tonto, necio
Further reading
- “mongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Clipping of mongoloid. Compare German Mongo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔŋɡʊ/
Noun
mongo n
- (slang, offensive) person with Down's syndrome
- (slang, offensive) idiot
- Synonyms: cp, idiot
Declension
| Declension of mongo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | mongo | mongot | mongon | mongona |
| Genitive | mongos | mongots | mongons | mongonas |
Derived terms
- kioskmongo
Adjective
mongo (comparative mer mongo, superlative mest mongo)
- (slang) idiotic, stupid