minga

See also: Minga

English

Etymology

From Pitjantjatjara minga tjuta (“ants”).

Noun

minga (plural minga)

1. (Central Australia, derogatory) A tourist, especially one that comes to climb Uluru.
   • 2004, Australia, →ISBN, page 10:

     To have Uluru interpreted by an Anangu guide is far more fulfilling than trailing after the minga, or "ants", as those who show their disrespect by climbing the sacred monolith are called.

   • 2008, Frommer's Australia:

     It's easy to see why local Aborigines refer to these intruders as minga—or little ants.

   • 2009, Rolf Potts, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer, →ISBN, page 127:

     I, too, have come to central Australia as a minga tjuta, though I'm not here to scale the slopes of Uluru.

   • 2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart:

     At the end of her patrol yesterday arvo, Ruby went into the crater and found a group of minga off track.

Anagrams

• Magin, gamin, gmina, magni-

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Bulu (Cameroon)

Noun

minga (plural binga)

1. woman (adult female human)

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Italian

Verb

minga

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mingere
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of mingere
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of mingere
4. third-person singular imperative of mingere

Anagrams

• magni
• mangi

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Pitjantjatjara

Noun

minga

1. ant

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈminɡa/ [ˈmĩŋ.ɡa]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua mink'a.

Noun

minga f (plural mingas)

1. (South America) collective work

Etymology 2

From Latin mentula.

Noun

minga f (plural mingas)

1. (Spain, vulgar) penis

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:pene.

Etymology 3

From Italian mica.

Interjection

1. (Argentina, slang) no way; fuck off

   Ese juguete es mío. ¡Minga! El que lo encuentra, se lo queda. - That toy is mine. No way! Finders keepers.

Further reading

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