Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long, awkward fellow; a dull, drowsy man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
lungi . - noun obsolete A
lingerer ; adull ,drowsy fellow.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The white of the lungis and the cream of the mundus, was I trying to bring that into my setting unconsciously?
Pal Payasa Anjali 2008
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The white of the lungis and the cream of the mundus, was I trying to bring that into my setting unconsciously?
Archive 2008-01-01 Anjali 2008
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I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses.
Waterworld 2008
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I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses.
Waterworld 2008
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In other places, men gripped their lungis in waist-deep water.
Waterworld 2008
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Members of a mostly male class whose profession and livelihood centers on washing clothes, they created a rainbow of drying saris and lungis (garments similar to sarongs) that stood out against the summer's low, muddy river and its parched bank.
Following the Line: Photographing laundry around the world Ross Arbes 2010
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I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses.
Waterworld 2008
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In other places, men gripped their lungis in waist-deep water.
Waterworld 2008
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Also the lungis, uniforms for our boatmen and rickshawalas, had not been sewn yet.
Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat 2009
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Children's warm clothes, new (not secondhand) lungis and dhotis for men. sturdy saris in wearable condition, rice and dal are welcome.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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