Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

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* 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 92

The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton'. Albeit a ' simpleton with a good vocabulary.

Noun

(en noun)

(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, 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?’

* 2010 , John Dale (editor), Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game , unnumbered page,

and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.

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