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ning-nongs

ning-nongs is the plural of ning-nong.

Meaning of ning-nong

Noun

ning-nong (plural ning-nongs)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A stupid person; an idiot.
    • That “ning-nong of an MP” as Billy Lane calls him, Fred Brentnall, in his squeaky lorikeet voice reads to the House Lawson′s last two stanzas, just to highlight the danger besetting the colony of Queensland, indeed, the whole country:[…]2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 147
    Synonyms:
    nong

Questions about ning-nongs

What is ning-nongs the plural of?
Ning-nongs is the plural of ning-nong.

Words near ning-nongs in the dictionary

  1. ning nong
  2. ning nongs
  3. Ning'an
  4. Ning-hsia
  5. ning-nong
  6. ning-nongs
  7. Ning-Po
  8. Ning-te
  9. Ning-wu
  10. Ningan
  11. ningaui

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