mongo
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown
Noun edit
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 edit
- Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
mongo (plural mongos)
- Clipping of mongoloid.
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Spanish mungo. Compare Tagalog monggo / munggo.
Noun edit
mongo (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Chuukese edit
Verb edit
mongo
- to eat
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Mongolian мөнгө (möngö).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mongo
- möngö (one 100th of tugrik, the currency of Mongolia)
Declension edit
Inflection of mongo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | mongotta | mongoitta | ||
instructive | — | mongoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Mongolian мөнгө (möngö).
Noun edit
mongo m (invariable)
- möngö (one hundredth of a tugrik)
Etymology 2 edit
Probably of Bantu origin.
Adjective edit
mongo (invariable)
- of or pertaining to the Mongo people
Noun edit
mongo m or f by sense (invariable)
- one who is part of the Mongo people
Noun edit
mongo m (uncountable)
- Mongo (Bantu language)
Further reading edit
- mongo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of mongoloide.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mon‧go
Noun edit
mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)
Adjective edit
mongo (feminine monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas)
- (slang, derogatory) idiot; fool; retarded
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
mongo m (plural mongos)
Declension edit
References edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)
- (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiot
Adjective edit
mongo (feminine monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas)
Further reading edit
- “mongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of mongoloid. Compare German Mongo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mongo n
- (slang, offensive) a person with Down's syndrome (or often a (congenital and) clearly noticeable disorder more generally)
- (slang, possibly offensive) an idiot and/or weirdo
Usage notes edit
Less associated with its etymology compared to cp and consequently less likely to offend in (sense 2) (though cp is often fairly detached from its etymology as well).
Declension edit
Declension of mongo | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mongo | mongot | mongon | mongona |
Genitive | mongos | mongots | mongons | mongonas |