Nong vs Jong - What's the difference?
nong | jong |
(slang, Australia, New Zealand) An idiot.
* 1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 126:
*:‘In there, you nong ,’ Max said, pointing out a pink-brick home with a 1950s skillion roof.
* 2008 , Michael Panckridge, Hat Trick! Toby Jones, Books 1-3 , 2010,
* 2010 , John Dale (editor), Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game ,
A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
*1933 , (Robert Byron), First Russia, Then Tibet , Tauris Parke 2011, p. 211:
*:When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 451:
*:However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong .
*2011 , Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas , Osprey 2011, p. 14:
*:The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.
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As a noun jong is
boy, lad.nong
English
Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- ‘You guys are such nongs ! Why would you want to face up to Shoaib Akhtar when you could win a World Cup against the young blond Aussie star at the home of cricket?’
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- and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.