Drongo Definition

drongos
noun

Any bird of the family Dicruridae.

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(Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A fool, an idiot.

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Other Word Forms of Drongo

Noun

Singular:
drongo
Plural:
drongos

Origin of Drongo

  • Alternatively, from putative RAAF slang drongo (a recruit), similarly after the bird.

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  • Another suggested derivation is the Scottish Gaelic drongair (“drunkard”).

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Drongo Sentence Examples

  • The drongo is blue and black and is, he believes, warningly coloured.

  • Pheasants, ducks, geese and snipe are abundant, and Dr C. Collingwood in his Naturalist's Rambles in the China Seas mentions .Ardea prasinosceles and other species of herons, several species of fly-catchers, kingfishers, shrikes and larks, the black drongo, the Cotyle sinensis and the Prinia sonitans.

  • This suggests that the resemblance to the pugnacious drongo may be beneficial in protecting the defenceless cuckoo from enemies.

  • He found that a South African drongo (Dicrurus (Buchanga) assimilis) was rejected after one or two attempts to eat it by a hungry mongoose (Herpestes galera) which had been starved for purposes of the experiment.

  • In this case also both sexes of the cuckoo mimic the drongo, whereas according to the theory it would be necessary for the hen bird alone to do so.

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