different between guava vs mongo

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1555, from Spanish guaya, a variant of guayaba, from Arawak guayabo (“guava tree”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??w?v?/
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

guava (countable and uncountable, plural guavas)

1. A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava.
2. Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color.
3. A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink).

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u????/, [??u????]

Noun

guava

1. guava

Declension

Japanese

Romanization

guava

1. R?maji transcription of ????

English

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

mongo (uncountable)

1. (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, […]

Further reading

• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• moong

Chuukese

Verb

mongo

1. to eat

Finnish

Noun

mongo

1. möngö (one 100th of tugrik, the currency of Mongolia)

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n.?o/
• Rhymes: -?n?o
• Hyphenation: mòn?go

Etymology 1

From Mongolian ????? (möngö).

Noun

mongo m (invariable)

1. möngö (one hundredth of a tugrik)

Etymology 2

Probably of Bantu origin.

Adjective

mongo (invariable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Mongo people.

Noun

mongo m or f (invariable)

1. One who is part of the Mongo people.
2. (uncountable, masculine only) Mongo (Bantu language)

References

• mongo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Portuguese

Etymology

Clipping of mongoloide.

Noun

mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)

1. (slang) idiot

Adjective

mongo m (feminine singular monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas, comparable)

1. (slang, derogatory) idiot; fool; retarded

Spanish

Noun

mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)

1. (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiot

Adjective

mongo (feminine monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas)

1. (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiotic

   Synonyms: tonto, necio

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of mongoloid. Compare German Mongo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????/

Noun

mongo n

1. (slang, offensive) person with Down's syndrome
2. (slang, offensive) idiot

Declension

Synonyms

• idiot

Derived terms

• kioskmongo

Adjective

mongo (comparative mer mongo, superlative mest mongo)

1. (slang) idiotic, stupid