drongo

İngilizce - Türkçe

drongo teriminin İngilizce Türkçe sözlükte anlamı

(Argo) salak

İngilizce - İngilizce

drongo teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı

fool, idiot

Various birds of the family Dicruridae

They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; called also drongo shrikes

A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ

They are usually black with a deeply forked tail

Heceleme

dron·go

Eş anlamlılar

cretin, doilem, fool, glaik, idiot, mong, dufus

Etimoloji

() The Australian slang is from a racehorse called Drongo (foaled 1921, retired 1925) which ran poorly, and by transferrance anyone slow-witted or clumsy became a drongo. (Reference: Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore, Lansdowne Press, 1970, reprint 1979 ISBN 0-7018-1309-1, entry for "Drongo", page 200.) The horse was apparently named for the bird the Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus). An alternative derivation for the Australian slang form of the word is from the Scottish Gaelic word drongair meaning drunkard.