bongon.1
/ˈbɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbɔŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/ More fully bongo antelope. A large antelope of West and Central African forests, Tragelaphus eurycerus, having a reddish-brown coat with thin vertical whitish stripes.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph) > other types of
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1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. xvi. facing p. 306 (caption) The Bongo Antelope... The chief features of the animal are the stripes on each side.
1902 O. Thomas in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 309 No evidence as yet exists as to whether the true western Bongo has horns in the female.
1911 T. Roosevelt in Ld. Charnwood T. Roosevelt (1923) 243 He had killed a bongo, a bull.
1964 E. P. Walker et al. Mammals of World II. 1418/1 Bongos live in the densest, most tangled parts of the forest.
2006 Independent 8 Aug. 10/3 Chester Zoo is experiencing a baby boom, including several first births such as..two hornbill chicks and a bongo antelope calf.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bongon.2
/ˈbɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbɔŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/ A Caribbean dance of African origin, typically performed at a wake by male dancers who form a circle and take turns to execute energetic and nimble hopping and kicking moves with arms outstretched. Frequently attributive.
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1915 Port of Spain Gaz. 14 Aug. 3 The devotees could no longer be held in check and ‘Bongo’ was the order of the wee hours of the morn! Then nobody in the neighbourhood could sleep.
1928 A. Aspinall Wayfarer in W. Indies 73 In some parts of the island a dance called the bungo is still popular.
1948 Trinidad Guardian 15 June 3/3 The belee, lumbo, bongo, bancow, shango and other dances are all discussed in the book.
1954 Social & Econ. Stud. 3 89 Most of the people attending had never seen the Limbo Dance, the Bongo Dance or the Calinda.
1996 E. Lovelace Salt xii. 226 The Nine Nights was nearly as big, with bongo dancing and card playing and fellars drinking rum.
2004 S. Dudley Calypso Music in Trinidad i. 18 The bongo is a dance done by men, especially at wakes, that is still performed in rural areas of Trinidad.
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bongon.3
/ˈbɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbɔŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/ Usually in plural. Either of a joined pair of small deep-bodied drums of a kind originating in Cuba, typically held between the knees and played by striking with the fingers and palms. Also more fully bongo drum.
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1920 J. Hergesheimer San Cristóbal 232 My head filled with the resonant bos and bongos of ñañiguismo.
1929 China Press (Shanghai) 25 Apr. 13/6 The Cuban government has prohibited the beating of the African ‘bongo drum’.
1956 New Yorker 11 Feb. 92/2 She's been doing her calypso act—with bongo accompaniment—since 1941.
1984 Financial Times 5 Dec. 19/6 There are bongoes, a sitar and tympani played listlessly by two downstage musicians.
2011 Oxfordshire Music Scene Dec. 20/2 Rhythmic percussion is the main dynamic, with drums, tablas, dhols and bongos aplenty.
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Bongon.4
/ˈbɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbɔŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ(ˌ)ɡoʊ/, East African English /ˈboŋɡo/ Tanzanian English.
1. A nickname for: Dar es Salaam, the most populous city in Tanzania, or for Tanzania as a whole. Also as a modifier.
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1993 M. Sommers in M. Hopkins & N. D. Donnelly Sel. Papers Refugee Issues (Amer. Anthropol. Assoc.) II. 15 These returnees describe Dar es Salaam as the place where..no one goes barefoot. ‘Bongoland,’ or ‘Bongo’ for short, translates as ‘brains’ in slang Swahili.
2000 Sunday News (Dar-es-Salaam) 26 Mar. 4/5 I took the suitcase, opened it,..pocketed the half a million Bongo shillings I found there and threw it away.
2015 Kwani? 8 582 The market had been a bongo (Dar es Salaamite) stronghold for so long that, on Rua du Guine, even the Mozambicans spoke fluent Swahili.
2020 Citizen (Tanzania) (Nexis) 26 Jan. Before us is a cutting from Bongo's leading English daily tabloid.
2. A style of hip-hop music originating in Tanzania; = Bongo Flava n. Often as a modifier, esp. in Bongo music.
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2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 131/1 (advt.) Abdul Forsyth is joined by special guest Sarah Ceas for a blend of funk, Latin, soul, Afrobeat, house, bongo and pure party grooves.
2015 Africa News: Star (Nairobi) (Nexis) 14 July Fans of bongo music are in for a treat this weekend as celebrated artiste James Haule aka Professor Jay..will be performing in Mombasa.
2020 @MillieOmanga1 5 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 21 Dec. 2020) The Bongo artists have done so well for themselves. Everyday I listen to bongo.
3. The Tanzanian film industry, based in Dar es Salaam. Often (and earliest) as a modifier, esp. in Bongo movie.
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2009 @Freedocast 12 May in twitter.com (accessed 21 Dec. 2020) Freedocast.com. Live AFRICA MOVIES: bongo movies.
2010 Africa News: Tanzania Daily News (Nexis) 11 Sept. Black Sunday which was directed by Sameer Srivastava features Bongo movies stars like Steven Kanumba Yvonne Cherly and Yusuf Mlela.
2019 S. Harman Seeing Politics i. 38 In the case of Nollywood and Bongo, film offers a medium in which to explore the changing nature of Africa.
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