tongo
See also: Tongo
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is it related to tchongo?”)
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ton‧go
Adjective edit
tongo (feminine tonga, masculine plural tongos, feminine plural tongas)
- (informal, of a person) stupid, idiotic
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
- (informal, of a person) naïve, gullible
Noun edit
tongo m (plural tongos, feminine tonga, feminine plural tongas)
Spanish edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
tongo m (plural tongos)
- (colloquial) fraud; farce
- 1993, José Luis Benítez, Chafanto, o, El encuentro de la imagen sobre el espejo mágico:
- La política es un tongo que se cree en el sublime derecho, pero divino derecho, de ser atendida, escuchada y alabada, y que piensa que todo el mundo trabaja para su exclusivo fin. A cambio de ello, ofrece miseria y padecimiento […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- '2015, Federico Jiménez Losantos, Los años perdidos de Mariano Rajoy:
- Otro tongo en el debate electoral. Rajoy y Rubalcaba pactaron no hablar de corrupción.
- Another farce in the electoral debate. Rajoy and Rubalcaba made a pact not to talk of corruption.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Uncertain
Noun edit
tongo m (plural tongos, feminine tonga, feminine plural tongas)
- (Panama, slang, derogatory) police officer; cop.
Further reading edit
- “tongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sranan Tongo edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tongo
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
Tongan edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *toŋo, from Proto-Oceanic *toŋoʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋəʀ.
Noun edit
tongó
- mangrove, esp. Rhizophora mangle
- Naʻe lahi ‘a e tongó ‘i Haʻapaí ni.
- There were a lot of mangroves in Haʻapai.