tongo

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is it related to tchongo?”)

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ton‧go

Adjective

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tongo (feminine tonga, masculine plural tongos, feminine plural tongas)

  1. (informal, of a person) stupid, idiotic
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
  2. (informal, of a person) naïve, gullible

Noun

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tongo m (plural tongos, feminine tonga, feminine plural tongas)

  1. (informal, of a person) a foolish person; a dunce; an idiot
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
  2. (informal, of a person) a naïve or gullible person
    Synonym: ingênuo

Spanish

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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tongo m (plural tongos)

  1. (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
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Etymology 2

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Uncertain

Noun

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tongo m (plural tongos, feminine tonga, feminine plural tongas)

  1. (Panama, slang, derogatory) police officer; cop.

Further reading

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Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English tongue.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tongo

  1. language, tongue

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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tongo (ma class, plural matongo)

  1. flock of birds
  2. a mannequin or decoy in the shape of a bird

Tongan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *toŋo, from Proto-Oceanic *toŋoʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋəʀ.

Noun

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tongó

  1. mangrove, esp. of species Rhizophora mangle
    Naʻe lahi ‘a e tongó ‘i Haʻapaí ni.
    There were a lot of mangroves in Haʻapai.