单词 | pongo |
释义 | pongon.1 1. A large anthropoid African ape, esp. a gorilla. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Gorilla (gorilla) pongo1625 troglodyte1774 gorilla1853 gorilloid1946 silverback1964 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pan or chimpanzee pongo1625 mock-man1697 chimpanzee1738 mandrill1744 troglodyte1774 koolookamba1860 chimp1877 bonobo1955 1625 A. Battel in S. Purchas Hakluytus Posthumus II. vii. iii. 982 Here are also two kinds of Monsters, which are common in these Woods [of Mayombe], and very dangerous. The greatest of these two Monsters is called, Pongo, in their Language: and the lesser is called, Engeco. This Pongo is..more like a Giant in stature, then a man: for he is very tall, and hath a mans face, hollow-eyed, with long haire vpon his browes. 1657 S. Clarke Examples Wonderfull Works God vi, in Geogr. Descr. All Countries 219 There is in Affrica a certain monster called Pongo, in the whole proportion like unto a man, but that it is bigger. 1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 ii. 104/2 The Pongo..is of a very great size, sometimes eight feet in height. 1780 W. Smellie in tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 77 (note) In the East Indies this animal is called Orang-outang; in Lowando, a province of Congo, Pongo. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. xx. 361 The gorilla has been mentioned..under the following names: pongo, by Battel, 1629; ingena, Bowditch, 1819. 1889 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 86 In addition to the observations on the human inhabitants, it contains excellent descriptions of animals, as the pongo or gorilla, and the zebra. 1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 157/1 The natives told fearsome tales of humanoid monsters; Pongos were like men, but with hairy bodies. Living in groups, they would attack people, stealing their children, who were never seen again... It is hard to equate this account of pongos, with its paranormal overtones, to what we now recognise as the lowland gorilla—a shy vegetarian. 2. An orang-utan (genus Pongo). Now only (in form Pongo) as the genus name. Valid publication of the genus name: B. G. E. de la V. Lacépède Tableau des mammifères (1799) 4. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang) satyra1398 orangutan1699 man of the woods1755 pongo1775 orang1778 yahooc1790 wild man1791 mias1840 red orang1840 outang1869 lesser orang-utan1903 1775 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals III. 405 This orang-outang, therefore, or this pongo, is not only in effect an animal, but a very singular one. 1798 Philos. Mag. 1 228 The orang outang of the large kind, or the pongo of Buffon, is not common even in its native country Borneo. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 44 There is a monkey in Borneo, hitherto known only by his skeleton, called the Pongo, which so closely resembles the Ourang-Outang..that we are tempted to consider him an adult—if not of the species of the Ourang-Outang, at least of one very nearly allied to it. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. xx. 342 In 1780 the skeleton of another large ape was sent from Batavia to Holland by Baron Wurmb, the resident governor, who called it the Pongo. It received from naturalists the name Pongo Wurmbi. 1913 D. G. Elliott Rev. Primates I. Errata The premier genus of the Great Apes is Pongo. 1994 Nature 24 Nov. 326/2 Pongo exhibits a lower percentage of specimens with three or more foramina than does at least one taxon, Hylobates lar carpenteri. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pongon.2adj. colloquial. A. n.2 1. British. Military. a. A soldier, esp. a low-ranking soldier. Also: a marine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [noun] thanec893 knightc1175 soldiera1300 osteyoura1450 servitor?1570 marshalman1575 soldado1577 soldat1591 manat1610 camper1631 soldade1634 buff coata1670 swad1708 militaire1746 red herring1789 coolie1803 swaddy1819 swad-gill1819 scarlet runnerc1864 guffy1882 leatherneck1890 pongo1890 hoster1892 swatty1901 file1903 squaddie1933 brown job1943 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > marine marinera1450 marine1672 marine soldier1690 maltout1785 jolly1829 horse-marine1878 pongo1890 leatherneck1914 devil dog1918 jarhead1944 1890 Leeds Mercury 29 Apr. 8/2 If he preferred infantry, he had the choice of the Guards, Highlanders, Fusiliers, Light Infantry, Rifles, and the Pongoes. 1916 Cornhill Mag. June 772 This young Pongo here has been and gone and sunk one of Fritz's destroyers. 1917 ‘B. Copplestone’ Lost Naval Papers vi. 85 You could pass as a naval officer more easily than you could as a Pongo. 1923 F. H. Vizetelly Desk-bk. Idioms 328 Pongo, a marine: in playful British usage, from a native African name for an anthropoid ape. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren iii. 92 Each service at that time had its own slang; to her the army were all Pongoes. 1994 Daily Tel. 12 July 19/3 To the chagrin of a group of vanquished ‘pongoes’, there was much crowing at the post-match party in the senior gunroom. The Army boys retaliated. b. An army officer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] officera1450 lancepesade1579 military1709 tax-eater1818 two-striper1917 chiefy1942 pongo1943 scrambled egg(s)1943 Percy1961 1943 B. J. Hurren Eastern Med. xii. 139 In the slang of the desert the word ‘pongo’ is used for all Army officers. 1965 O. Manning Friends & Heroes xxii. 237 What were you doing walking about holding on to that bloody little pongo? 1998 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 27 Dec. 39 Pilots..were sneered at as a bit flashy by pongos (Army Officers) and Naval types. 2. New Zealand and Australian. A British person; (originally) spec. a British soldier, (now) esp. a person perceived as old-fashioned or colonial in attitude. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Britain British-maneOE Briton1679 Britoner1799 Great Britainer1809 Britisher1815 Great British1843 Angrezi1866 Angrez1877 Brit1884 heaven-born1886 Pom1912 Pommy1913 choom1916 pongo1942 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > British redcoatc1605 lobster?1643 bloodyback1770 Blue Flint1827 rooibaadjie1848 choom1916 pongo1942 1942 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 7 Sept. 5 A big bronzed Pongo came in. 1944 RAAF Saga 65 Amazing blokes, the Pongos. 1949 Here & Now Oct. 11 He long ago began featuring himself as ‘New Zealander born and bred’, a sop to the vague..feeling against Pommies, Pongoes, Homies. 1957 J. M. Hosking Austral. First & Last 123 We call them New Australians now; once we called some Dagoes, Others Balts and Squareheads, Pongoes, Grills and Rice and Sagoes. 1969 Private Eye 19 Dec. 5/2 The pongos are shooting through like streaks of weasle piss! 1978 J. H. Henderson Soldier Country 112 Some of the nearby Pongos cried: ‘E-e-e-e! What a Fred Karno's Army!’ 2001 Evening Post (Wellington) (Nexis) 21 July 2 We..had far more common sense and get up and go than the poor old Pongo. 3. derogatory and offensive. A black person. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 1972 M. Woodhouse Mama Doll viii. 89 Our Pongo brothers in darkest Africa. B. adj. New Zealand and Australian. British. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [adjective] > Britain BritannishOE BritishOE Britona1387 Britannical1548 Britannian1589 Britain1609 Britannic1635 pongo1944 Brit1948 1944 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 18 Dec. 4 Those guys in D company might not understand if we talked to them with a Pongo accent. 1947 D. M. Davin For Rest of Lives xxxii. 165 That pongo cobber of yours, the homo. 1957 R. Ollis 101 Nights 154 What I'd call a typical bloody Pommy officer. I can't stand these pongo bastards. 1982 Weekend Austral. Mag. 30 Jan. 6/5 It came from somebody in the British Legion (the pongo equivalent of the RSL). 1993 Dominion (Wellington) 5 Mar. 20 He..could come from a Welsh coalmining village, with his white Pongo body and mole-adorned face. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11625n.2adj.1890 |
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