Noun: mango
| Singular | mango |
| Plural | mangoes; mangos |
Sample Sentences
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On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard. [1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146:]
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And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango. [1738, October–November, Hans Sloan, Philosophical Transactions, volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by Thomas Stack, Royal Society (1741), page 376]
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In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers. [2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335:]
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Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold. [1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222:]
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Best mango peppers [1896, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 154:]
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Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds. [1943 August 9, Mary Adgate, “Stuffed Mangoes”, in The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, page 5:]
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Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers. [2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41:]
Nouns inflected like mango
deuteroconch,
borshch,
bortsch,
hypervolcano,
mud volcano,
Milton mango,
bulk cargo,
FIZ,
DES,
DEX,
yellow-fever mosquito,
BMS,
BBS,
Kölsch,
CMS,
Negro,
nonzero,
cryptobranch,
active volcano,
winnebago, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain. See: Portuguese Nouns '
manga'.
Verbs referencing "mango"
Czech Nouns
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Mango, Irish Nouns
mangó, Bulgarian Nouns
манго.