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mongo

1
Or Dz·DZ

[mong-goh]

noun

plural

mongos 
  1. mungo.



mongo

2

[mong-goh]

noun

plural

mongo, mongos 
  1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Mongolian People's Republic, one 100th of a tugrik.

Mongo

3

[mong-goh]

noun

  1. a member of any of various agricultural peoples of the central Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  2. the Bantu language of the Mongo peoples.

mongo

1

/ ˈɒŋɡəʊ /

noun

  1. a variant of mungo

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

öԲö

2

/ ˈɒŋɡəʊ /

noun

  1. a Mongolian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a tugrik

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mongo1

First recorded in 1935–40; from modern Mongolian öԲö, from öԲü “silver, money”
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Example Sentences

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“Remember Charles Reich’s mongo bestseller, ‘The Greening of America’?” writer Amity Shlaes wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 1999, nearly three decades after the book was published.

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Nkoko, mongo, zulu—river, mountain, sky—everything must be called out from the void by the word we use to claim it.

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Currently this API is providing a view of our old database, but as we move towards creating a new database, powered by mongo we have made a change to the responses our API provides.

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"Master, he died," said Olari; "he died of the sickness mongo—the sickness itself."

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"Here we will wait," panted the uncle, "and when B'chumbiri comes we will call him to land, for he has the sickness mongo."

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When To Use

What else does mongo mean?

Mongo can be a slang term for "huge" or "extremely."In another, unrelated sense, mongo or mong can be a slur for a "stupid" person.Mongo is also used in New York to describe items picked from the trash.

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