ranga

See also: ränga

English

Etymology

Corruption of orangutan; popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹæŋə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋə

Noun

ranga (plural rangas)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
    • 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page,
      You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
    • 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,
      Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.
    • 2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,
      Fez′s resolutions: []
      3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.
    • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 183:
      Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.

Usage notes

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

See also

Anagrams


Irish

Noun

ranga

  1. genitive singular of rang

Portuguese

Verb

ranga

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of rangar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of rangar

Rapa Nui

Noun

ranga

  1. war refugee, fugitive

Derived terms

  • kohau ranga
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