Sango vs Mango - What's the difference?
sango | mango |
(dated, Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich.
(UK) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
* 1824 , Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary'', David Brewster (editor), ''The Edinburgh Journal of Science , Volume 1: April—October,
* 1865 , Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World ,
(botany) A tropical Asian fruit tree, .
The fruit of the mango tree.
* 1738 , October–November, (Hans Sloan), Philosophical Transactions , volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by (Thomas Stack), (Royal Society) (1741),
A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been .
* 2004 , Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea , page 335
A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
* 1879 , Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania , Page 222
* 1896 , Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report , Page 154
* {{quote-news, 1943, August 9, Mary Adgate, Stuffed Mangoes, The Lima News, city=Lima, Ohio, page=5
, passage=Cut tops from mangoes ; remove seeds.}}
* 2000 , Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today , page 41
A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo .
Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax .
(colour) A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
(uncommon) To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
* 1870 , Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book , page 444:
* 1989 , William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art :
* 2008 , Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish (ISBN 1589804899), page 66:
As a proper noun sango
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English
Etymology 1
From . Australian from 1940s.Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
Now more common is sanger.Synonyms
* sanger (qualifier) * sarnie (qualifier)References
* Macquarie Slang Dictionary'' lists ''sanger'', with ''sango under “also”.Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 219,
- We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos , and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.
page 459,
- Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos .
Anagrams
* ----mango
English
(wikipedia mango) (Mangifera indica) (Cucumis melo) (Anthracothorax)Noun
(en-noun)page 376:
- And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango .
- In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.
- Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.
- Best mango peppers
citation
- Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers.
Verb
(es)- Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.
- In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing " all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.
- For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.
References
* (bell peppers)The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia