Mang vs Mong - What's the difference?
mang | mong |
*
Ha now delight'h vor mang . }} (Australian slang) A mongrel dog.'>citation
* 1965 , Brian James, The Big Burn: Short Stories ,
(dated, offensive, pejorative, British, slang) A person with Down's syndrome.
(pejorative, British, slang) A stupid person.
(obsolete) a variant spelling of
As an abbreviation mang
is mister.As a noun mong is
(dialect) a mixture, a crowdchambers twentieth century dictionary or mong can be (australian slang) a mongrel dog or mong can be (dated|offensive|pejorative|british|slang) a person with down's syndrome.As a preposition mong is
(obsolete) a variant spelling of.mang
English
Etymology 1
Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American-Spanish.Noun
Etymology 2
Quotations
* {{quote-book , year = 1867 , first = William Frederick , last = Rock , authorlink = William Frederick Rock , title = Jim and Nell , url = http://archive.org/details/jimnelldramaticp00lond , page = 25 , passage = Hagegy Bess; wi' zich, I reckon,Ha now delight'h vor mang . }}
mong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Derived terms
* mongcornEtymology 2
Contraction of (mongrel).Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- Some blue cattle-dogs and a small pack of mongs barked excitedly, and danced round, and wished they knew what to do in such an unheard-of situation; and no doubt dreamed for days after of what they had done to distinguish themselves.