Boor vs Drongo - What's the difference?
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A peasant.
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
A yokel, country bumpkin,
An uncultured person
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A fool, an idiot.
* 2010 , Graham Seal, Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales ,
* 2010 , John Timpson, Upside Down Management: A Common Sense Guide to Better Business ,
Boor is a related term of drongo.
As nouns the difference between boor and drongo
is that boor is bear while drongo is any bird of the family dicruridae or drongo can be (australia|new zealand|slang|pejorative) a fool, an idiot.boor
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Etymology 1
(wikipedia drongo)Alternative forms
* drongoeDerived terms
* drongo cuckooEtymology 2
From an Australian racehorse named Drongo'', apparently after the bird (specifically, after the '''', ''Dicrurus bracteatus''). The horse (foaled 1921, retired 1925) ran poorly, and by transference anyone slow-witted or clumsy became a drongo."''Drongo''", entry in 1970 , Bill Wannan, ''Australian Folklore , Lansdowne Press, reprint 1979, ISBN 0-7018-1309-1, page 200. * Alternatively, from putative RAAF slang drongo'' (''a recruit''), similarly after the bird."''drongo''", entry in 2007 , Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, ''The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ,page 120. * Another suggested derivation is the (etyl) .
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- In another story, the drongo' is working for a farmer when the boss decides it is time to build another windmill. The '''drongo''' agrees to help but asks the farmer if he thinks it really makes sense to have two windmills. ‘What do you mean?’ the farmer asked. ‘Well, says the ' drongo , ‘there?s barely enough wind to operate the one you already have, so I doubt there?ll be enough to work two of them.’
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- One drongo executive can do harm enough, but things get worse when they start recruiting people like themselves.
