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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)
- (informal, of a person) a foolish person; a dunce; an idiot
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
- (informal, of a person) a naïve or gullible person
- Synonym: ingênuo
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]
tongo (ma class, plural matongo)
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.
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