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drongo
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?????
Etymology 1
From Malagasy drongo.
Noun
drongo (plural drongos or drongoes)
- Any bird of the family Dicruridae.
Derived terms
- drongo cuckoo
Etymology 2
From an Australian racehorse named Drongo, apparently after the bird (specifically, after the spangled drongo, Dicrurus bracteatus). The horse (foaled 1920, retired 1925) never won a race, and by transference anyone slow-witted or clumsy became a drongo.
- Alternatively, from putative RAAF slang drongo (a recruit), similarly after the bird.
- Another suggested derivation is the Scottish Gaelic drongair (“drunkard”).
Noun
drongo (plural drongos)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow.
- 2010, Graham Seal, Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales, page 191,
- In another story, the drongo is working for a farmer when the boss decides it is time to build another windmill. The drongo agrees to help but asks the farmer if he thinks it really makes sense to have two windmills. ‘What do you mean?’ the farmer asked. ‘Well, says the drongo, ‘there?s barely enough wind to operate the one you already have, so I doubt there?ll be enough to work two of them.’
- 2010, John Timpson, Upside Down Management: A Common Sense Guide to Better Business, unnumbered page,
- One drongo executive can do harm enough, but things get worse when they start recruiting people like themselves.
- 2010, Graham Seal, Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales, page 191,
Synonyms
- (clumsy fool; idiot): cretin, doilem (Geordie), dufus, fool, glaik (Geordie), idiot, mong
References
Anagrams
- Gordon, Grodno
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French drongo, from Malagasy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dr?n.?o/
- Rhymes: -?n?o
- Hyphenation: dròn?go
Noun
drongo m (plural dronghi)
- (ornithology) drongo (any bird of the Dicruridae family), particularly the fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis)
References
- drongo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French drongo, from Malagasy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dron.?o/
Noun
drongo m (uncountable)
- drongo
Declension
See also
- cioar?
- corb
- mierl?
References
- drongo in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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bumpkin
English
Etymology
From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom +? -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?mpk?n/
- Hyphenation: bump?kin
Noun
bumpkin (plural bumpkins)
- A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
- (nautical) A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
- Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1.
- They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1.
Derived terms
- country bumpkin
- joskin
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