drongoes

Meaning of drongoes

plural noun
  1. a songbird with glossy black plumage and typically a long forked tail and a crest, found in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia.
  2. a stupid or incompetent person.
    I gave that drongo fifty dollars and he only gave me change for ten!

mid 19th century: from Malagasy. drongo (sense 2) is said to be from the name of an Australian racehorse of the 1920s which consistently finished last or near last.

Information about drongoes

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of drongoes

dron-goes

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • drongoes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with drongoes

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