different between poncho vs banjo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?o?/
• Rhymes: -?nt???

Noun

poncho (plural ponchos or ponchoes)

1. A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
   • 1975, Margery Turner Fisher, Who's Who in Children's Books, page 203

     Garibaldi, with his cowboy's poncho, red shirt and the black ostrich feathers in his wide hat […]

   • 2011, Bruce N. Anderson, Wingtips Under a Bolivian Poncho, page 130

     It was a gringo in a poncho. It was not really accurate to his suits worn today, but Julia would understand the symbolism that he was adapting to the culture and expectations while far away from home.

2. A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
   • 1845, William Jameson, “Botanical Excursion to Salinas, an Indian Village on Chimborazo”, The London Journal of Botany, Volume 4, p. 382:

     […] spreading over my bedding an indian-rubber poncho to exclude the rain.

   • 1850, Romance of Modern Travel, p. 43:

     I […] took my seat between Juan and Ambrosio, protected from the rain by an India-rubber poncho.

   • 1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
   • I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
   • 1859, Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler, p. 39:

     The following list of articles is deemed a sufficient outfit for one man upon a three months’ expedition, viz.: […] 1 gutta percha poncho

   • 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59:

     […] when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.

   • 1888, William Eleroy Curtis, The capitals of Spanish America, p. 505:

     It is about the size of the rubber poncho used in the United States, […]

   • 2001, Michael Rutter, Camping Made Easy, 2nd ed., page 98

     If you have to hike all day in a poncho, your pants will be wet thigh-high before long (never mind how fast you'll get wet if you have to go through wet brush or grass).

Translations

Related terms

• ruana
• slicker

French

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

Japanese

Romanization

poncho

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Karao

Noun

poncho

1. money collected for a common purpose

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n.t???/

Noun

poncho n

1. Alternative spelling of ponczo.

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• poncho in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• poncho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua punchu.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?põ?u/

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pont??o/, [?põn?.t??o]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua punchu.

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

See also

• ruana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

poncho

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of ponchar.

Further reading

• “poncho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

A corruption of bandore, from the pronunciation of African slaves.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: b?n'j?, IPA^(key): /?bæn.d???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæn.d?o?/

Noun

banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

   I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
2. Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
3. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
4. (Britain, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
   • 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:

     They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".

   • 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London:

     Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: bainseo
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Macedonian: ????? (bendžo)
• ? Russian: ?????? (bandžo)
• ? Thai: ????? (b??n-joo)
• ? Welsh: banjô
• ? Yiddish: ?????????? (bandzho)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Verb

banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)

1. To play a banjo.
2. (transitive, slang, Britain) To beat, to knock down.
   • 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95

     Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.

   • 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998

     Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game

   • 2007, "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online, Jul 31, 2007

     "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.

3. (transitive, slang, Britain, military) To shell or attack (a target).
   • 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS (page cxxx)

     Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Alice Parkinson, Music (2006), p. 22.

Czech

Noun

banjo n

1. banjo

Declension

Synonyms

• benžo (much less common)

Further reading

• banjo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English banjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?n.jo?/
• Hyphenation: ban?jo

Noun

banjo m (plural banjo's, diminutive banjootje n)

1. banjo (stringed instrument)

Finnish

(index b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?njo/, [?b?njo?]
• Rhymes: -?njo
• Syllabification: ban?jo

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.?o/, /b??.d?o/

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. banjo

References

• “banjo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

banj?

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish banjo, from English banjo.

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Italian

Noun

banjo m (invariable)

1. (music) banjo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English banjo, 18th century black American rendition of bandore.

Noun

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoer, definite plural banjoene)

1. (music) a banjo

References

• “banjo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English banjo, as above.

Noun

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoar, definite plural banjoane)

1. (music) a banjo

References

• “banjo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. (music) banjo (a musical instrument)

Romanian

Etymology

From French banjo.

Noun

banjo n (plural banjouri)

1. banjo

Declension

Spanish

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. banjo

Swedish

Noun

banjo c

1. (music) banjo

Declension

Anagrams

• bojan

Welsh

Alternative forms

• banjô

Etymology

Borrowed from English banjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?band???/

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoau)

1. banjo

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “banjo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from English banjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?banjo?/

Noun

banjo c (plural banjo's, diminutive banjoke)

1. banjo

Further reading

• “banjo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011