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What is the difference between donga and donger?

donga | donger |

In australia terms the difference between donga and donger

is that donga is a transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation while donger is a donga (transportable cabin or tourist accommodation).

donga

English

(wikipedia donga)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
  • * 2004 , Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia , Lonely Planet, page 152,
    • Menzies Hotel' ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, '''donga''' $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - ' dongas (temporary miner?s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.
  • * 2004 , James Woodford, The Dog Fence , page 225,
    • He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman?s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.
  • * 2009 , (editor), ''The Best Australian Essays 2009 , page 118,
    • Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
    Usage notes
    * Usually used in outback Australia, especially the northwest.

    Etymology 2

    From the Nguni group of languages. A washed out ravine or gully.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South African English) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
  • * 1900 , , Volume 2, 2008 Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 14:
    • Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga .
  • * 1901 , , Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 284:
    • There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
  • * 1948 , , In Search of South Africa , Methuen, page 168:
    • Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas .

    References

    * Jean Bradford, A Dictionary of South African English , Oxford (1978).

    Anagrams

    * * English terms with multiple etymologies

    donger

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Africa, AU, informal) penis
  • *1988 , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 18),
    • ‘And I had a lad in this morning with the most enormous donger .’
  • * 2011 , Bill Marsh, The ABC Book of Great Aussie Stories: For Young People , unnumbered page,
    • My donger gets sucked right up inside this bloody hose. Hell it was painful.
    ‘Christ almighty,’ Sandy said. ‘Yer right. She?s a powerful pump alright.’
    Derived terms
    * dry as a dead dingo's donger (Australian)
    Synonyms
    See

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A donga (transportable cabin or tourist accommodation).
  • * 2009 , David Everett, Kingsley Flett, Shadow Warrior: From the SAS to Australia?s Most Wanted , unnumbered page,
    • The first donger had one of its sliding windows open a crack, so I was able to get in there without leaving a sign.

    Anagrams

    * Regional English