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Also, there was a very interesting high-stakes game of "tingo", the rules of which were only secondary to the drama behind the bidding.
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Also, there was a very interesting high-stakes game of "tingo", the rules of which were only secondary to the drama behind the bidding.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois 2005
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It looks like the battle against "tingo" is thoroughly lost.
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The Meaning of Tingo, tingo means "to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2011
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The “tingo” in the title is an Easter Island word, which means to borrow objects from a friend’s house one by one until there are none left.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Toujours Tingo - words that don’t exist in English 2008
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For example, tingo, a word in the Pascuense language of Easter Island that means "borrowing things from a friend’s house, one by one, until he has nothing left".
The Perfect Word 2007
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For example, tingo, a word in the Pascuense language of Easter Island that means "borrowing things from a friend’s house, one by one, until he has nothing left".
Archive 2007-03-01 Peggy 2007
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„ tingo: Vos de rebus, qui fuit ei -,, dem Racchifi Presbiteri, nulla aberc,, debetis, eo quod ipfe Racchifi Pre -,, sbiteri fuam portionem offieruit ei -
sionnach commented on the word tingo
tingo (Pascuense, Easter Island)
to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them
March 20, 2008
bilby commented on the word tingo
Now that's a word!
March 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word tingo
Heeeyyy...I think this is my brother!
March 20, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word tingo
I bought The meaning of tingo today. As soon as I looked for Italian words, I found some weakness here and there. So I'm going to create a boring list about that. Stay tuned.
April 13, 2008
sionnach commented on the word tingo
@Prolagus: Can you tell us what noises Italian Rice Krispies make, so that I can add it to my list?
Grazie mille.
April 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word tingo
Here is the (open) list: Don't mean a tingo.
April 13, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word tingo
First person singular of the Latin verb meaning "wet, moisten; bathe" and thus "dye, stain". From this come our words 'tinge', 'tincture', 'tint'. So now you know.
April 9, 2009
dogdoc commented on the word tingo
Tingo – Continuously borrowing items from a neighbor’s house and not returning them, thereby gradually stealing everything from them one-by-one until there is nothing left.
May 21, 2024