bongo1
/ˈbɒŋɡəʊ
/noun (plural bongos)
Each of a joined pair of small deep-bodied drums, typically held between the knees and played with the fingers.The tabla is sort of a cross between the bongos and snare drum....
- The first track ‘Una Cancion,’ with it's echoed bongos, steel drums and chilled vocals, will help you forget just how cold it is outside.
- ‘Sinner Man ‘is a Tamla tornado of sitars, trumpets, bongos and guitars.’
Origin
1920s: from Latin American Spanish bongó.
Rhymes
bongo2
/ˈbɒŋɡəʊ/noun (plural same or bongos)
A forest antelope that has a chestnut coat with narrow white vertical stripes, native to central Africa.
- Tragelaphus euryceros, family Bovidae.
- These rich foreigners want to be sure that they will find a bongo during a fairly brief visit.
- Sapo National Park is Liberia's only national park and one of the last rainforest refuges for bongo antelopes and forest elephants
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Kikongo.
- de' Medici, Giovanni
- de' Medici, Lorenzo
- dement
- dementalise
- dementalised
- dementalising
- dementalize
- dementalized
- dementalizing
- dementated
- dementation
- demented
- dementedly
- dementedness
- dementia
- demential
- dementia praecox
- dementifying
- dementing
- demerara
- demerara rum
- demerara sugar
- demerge
- demerger
- demerit