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单词 pongo
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pongon.1

Brit. /ˈpɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɔŋɡoʊ/, /ˈpɑŋɡoʊ/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably a borrowing from a Bantu language. Partly also a borrowing from French. Etymon: French pongo.
Etymology: Probably < a language of the Mayombe hills in the former kingdom of Loango in Equatorial Africa: compare Lumbu pungu (plural tsipungu ), Vili mpungu (plural simpungu ), Yombi yimpungu (plural tsimpungu ). In sense 2 via French pongo (1748; 1766 in the work translated in quot. 1775 at sense 2); compare scientific Latin Pongo , genus name (1799: see note at sense 2).
1. A large anthropoid African ape, esp. a gorilla. Now historical.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈpɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɔŋɡoʊ/, /ˈpɑŋɡoʊ/, Australian English /ˈpɔŋɡoʊ/, New Zealand English /ˈpɒŋɡʌu/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably originally a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pongo n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably originally a transferred use of pongo n.1 (compare quot. 1923 at sense A. 1a); in later use perhaps influenced by pong n.2 (which is first attested slightly later). For alternative suggestions compare:1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 45 Pongo, an Army officer. Derogatory: from the name often given to dogs.1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 90/1 Pongo,..a Naval nickname dating from the time when the Navy and Army joined forces in annual manoeuvres before the First World War. The forage cap worn by soldiers resembled that worn by the pet dog Pongo which appeared in a Punch and Judy show.
colloquial.
A. n.2
1. British. Military.
a. A soldier, esp. a low-ranking soldier. Also: a marine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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