drongo
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- noun
- Offensive
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idiota
- The other birds must breathe a sigh of relief when the drongos leave for other parts at the end of the hot season.
Examples
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Stop being a drongo and fix the car.
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Who are you to tell me what to do, you hard-headed drongo?
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Give us a hand with this drongo.
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Good luck, Drover, you drongo!
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But I'm up a gum tree with the green card drongos.
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Perhaps Yat Ho was just a strange drongo, given to bursts of violence anyway?
Fiction book (1994) -
My girlfriend, Xia, a Han Chinese from the north, is normally fairly tolerant of my enthusing, but I think those first few drongo weeks strained even her elastic patience.
Fiction book (1994) -
Stop being a drongo and just listen to the instructions.
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He acted like a complete drongo during the meeting, making everyone lose focus.
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Don't be such a drongo; you need to pay attention if you want to succeed.
Synonyms
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8.8
A person who behaves in a silly or careless way
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9.4
An insulting word for a person who behaves in a very strange or foolish way
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9.5
A person who is foolish and makes silly mistakes
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8.7
A person who is not very smart
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9.9
A silly or foolish person used as an Australian insult
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9.8
A person who acts in a silly or foolish way
A silly or foolish person in Australian English
A person who acts very foolishly and cannot do simple tasks
Antonyms
How Foolish
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word drongo is Australian slang and one popular story says it comes from a racehorse called Drongo that never won a race, so people began using the name for someone who fails or looks silly. That's why calling someone a drongo means calling them a 'fool' or 'idiot'.