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  • noun slang, Australia, New Zealand An idiot.

Etymologies

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Probably shortened from ning-nong.

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Examples

  • Because some nong sent it to Papua New Guinea instead of Australia.

    Clone Wars 4 update karenmiller 2009

  • And then there are the funny ones such as ning nong, doofus, blatherskite.

    Etymology – the origins of words « Write Anything 2010

  • NOTHING at a fete should ever be $12! and beware the bloody salvos store in Ballarat where a used paperback was $14, and the counter nong flew into a rage when I said

    fairy beard Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • Friday, January 25, 2008 ning nong still getting international publicity

    Archive 2008-01-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008

  • One Ming scholar pointed out that the Dian people knew farming but not the cultivation of mulberry trees (zhi nong er buzhi sang) .176 Even in those areas where climate accommodated silkworms, the advocacy of magistrates to this end was often unsuccessful.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • Rick now earned his bread by handling lead guitar on tours by Bob Seger and Jackson Browne, a'. nong others.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • I finally figured out that I needed to click on your title to get your new post - what a nong!

    It's Giveaway Time!!!! Katy 2009

  • Like a nong, I've managed to give myself tennis elbow by not using my computer mouse ergonomically.

    This and that karenmiller 2007

  • I own two French presses, a stainless steel Cuisinart grinder/drip, a retro De'Longhi espresso machine, an Italian Vev Vigano moka pot, and a Vietnamese drip that I purchased in old Hanoi for making ca phe sua nong .

    The Coffee Fix: Can the $11,000 Clover Machine Save Starbucks? 2008

  • I own two French presses, a stainless steel Cuisinart grinder/drip, a retro De'Longhi espresso machine, an Italian Vev Vigano moka pot, and a Vietnamese drip that I purchased in old Hanoi for making ca phe sua nong .

    The Coffee Fix: Can the $11,000 Clover Machine Save Starbucks? 2008

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  • "I didn't know you were married before, said Elaine, lips aquiver.

    Eee-laine, you nong, said Hat. 1914 to 1918. She'd hafta start havin em at age twelve to get six out, not to mention one off to war. She was born the year of Federation, 1901.

    Well, said Lester. Margaret River School obviously taught Hat more than groomin and deportation."

    Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 71 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition

    March 31, 2010