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Ranga vs Gongs - What's the difference?

ranga | gongs |

As nouns the difference between ranga and gongs

is that ranga is an orange-haired or red-haired person while gongs is plural of gong.

As a verb gongs is

third-person singular of gong.

ranga

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, slang, pejorative) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
  • * 2009 , , Sons of the Rumour , unnumbered page,
  • You?re looking down upon ‘rangas ’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
  • * 2010 , , Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010 , Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,
  • Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country?s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can?t tell.
  • * 2010 , Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary , HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,
  • Fez?s resolutions:
    3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.

    Usage notes

    Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

    See also

    * Bluey

    Anagrams

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    gongs

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (gong)