drongo

Meaning of drongo

noun
  1. a songbird with glossy black plumage and typically a long forked tail and a crest, found in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia.
  2. a stupid or incompetent person.
    I gave that drongo fifty dollars and he only gave me change for ten!

mid 19th century: from Malagasy. drongo (sense 2) is said to be from the name of an Australian racehorse of the 1920s which consistently finished last or near last.

Information about drongo

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of drongo is: drongos.
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Hyphenation of drongo

drongo

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • drongo is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of drongo

Gordon, Grodno

Words that rhyme with drongo

Abongo, Babongo, Bongo, Obongo, bongo, Congo, congo, Ndongo, Bushongo, Bakongo, Kikongo, Kongo, kongo, Ilongo, Longo, barcolongo, Mongo, mongo, Machipongo, Pongo, pongo, Basongo, Songo

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