mongo
English
Etymology
Unknown
Noun
mongo (uncountable)
- (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, […]
- 1984, [NYC] Issue 1-6, page 51:
Further reading
- Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams
Chuukese
Verb
mongo
- to eat
Finnish
Noun
mongo
- möngö (one 100th of tugrik, the currency of Mongolia)
Declension
Inflection of mongo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mongo | mongot | |
genitive | mongon | mongojen | |
partitive | mongoa | mongoja | |
illative | mongoon | mongoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mongo | mongot | |
accusative | nom. | mongo | mongot |
gen. | mongon | ||
genitive | mongon | mongojen | |
partitive | mongoa | mongoja | |
inessive | mongossa | mongoissa | |
elative | mongosta | mongoista | |
illative | mongoon | mongoihin | |
adessive | mongolla | mongoilla | |
ablative | mongolta | mongoilta | |
allative | mongolle | mongoille | |
essive | mongona | mongoina | |
translative | mongoksi | mongoiksi | |
abessive | mongotta | mongoitta | |
instructive | — | mongoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
mongo m (uncountable)
- möngö (one hundredth of a tugrik)
Etymology 2
Probably of Bantu origin.
Adjective
mongo (invariable)
- Of or pertaining to the Mongo people.
Noun
mongo m or f (uncountable)
- One who is part of the Mongo people.
- (uncountable, masculine only) Mongo (Bantu language)
References
Portuguese
Noun
mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)
Adjective
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- (slang, derogatory) idiot; fool; retarded
Spanish
Noun
mongo m (plural mongos, feminine monga, feminine plural mongas)
- (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiot
Adjective
mongo (feminine monga, masculine plural mongos, feminine plural mongas)
- (colloquial, Chile, Cuba) idiotic
Synonyms
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mongo n
- (offensive) person with Down's syndrome
- (offensive) idiot
Synonyms
Adjective
mongo
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