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nong Austral. slang.|nɒŋ| Also nong-nong. [Origin unknown.] A fool; a stupid person. Cf. ning-nong.
1953Baker Australia Speaks vii. 171 Nong, a simpleton or fool. 1959― Drum viii. 61 ‘Nong’ (or the duplicated form ‘nong-nong’) was equivalent not only to dill, but also to drube, dope, and drongo. 1961Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 5 Feb. 5/1 Nicholson and Fenton were not complete nongnongs. 1970M. Kelly Spinifex vii. 113 Todd whirled, rifle at hip, ‘You nong!’ ‘That's what they call me,’ Reid commented affably. 1972Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 3/4 Mrs. Margaret Whitlam today emphatically denied that she had referred on Saturday night to journalists as ‘nongs’. |