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Sango

//ˈsæŋəʊ// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic.

    "Sango has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns."

Noun
  1. 1
    A sandwich. Australia, colloquial, dated, informal
  2. 2
    A rudimentary wooden bridge in India. UK

    "1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219, We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp."

  3. 3
    a trade language widely used in Chad wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sangwich") + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sango Sängö.

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