sango

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

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsæŋəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋəʊ

sango (plural sangos or sangoes)

1. (dated, Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich. [From 1940s.]

Now more common is sanger.

• (Australia, Ireland, informal) sambo
• (Australia, informal) sammie, sammo, sanger
• (UK, informal) sarnie

• Macquarie Slang Dictionary lists sanger, with sango under “also”.

sango (plural sangos)

1. (Britain) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
   • 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.

   • 1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459,

     Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.

• Ganos, Gaons, Goans, Nogas, agons, gaons, gosan

sango

1. odor; smell; whiff

From Italian sangue, from Latin sanguis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanɡo/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋɡo/ (considered by some to be incorrect)

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• Hyphenation: san‧go

sango (uncountable, accusative sangon)

1. blood

• sangavida
• sangi
• sangosoifanta
• sangotransfuzo

sango m (plural sangos)

1. Sango

From Esperanto sango, from French sang, Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, ultimately from Latin sanguis.

sango (uncountable)

1. blood

• sangala (“sanguine”)
• sangoza (“bloody, sanguinary”)
• sangifar (“to bleed”)
• sangocirkulado (“blood circulation”)
• sangomorbo (“blood disease”)
• sangovarsar (“to shed blood”)

sango

1. Rōmaji transcription of さんご