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sango¹

  • /ˈsæŋəʊ/ Australia

Rhymes with -æŋəʊ

Where it comes from

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

noun sangos · sangoes

  1. Australia, colloquial, dated, informal A sandwich.

    Similar: sambo, sammie, sammo, sanger, sarnie

sango²

noun sangos

  1. UK 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 b

Sango³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Sango Sängö.

proper noun Sangho

  1. The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic. Sango has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.

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name language

한국어상고어 Sanggo'eo
日本語サンゴ語 Sango-go
中文桑戈語 /桑戈语 Sānggēyǔ
DeutschSango
Русскийса́нго sángo
العربيةسَانْغُوِيَّة sānḡuwiyya

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"sango." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sango. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

sango. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sango

Chicago

"sango." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sango.

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@misc{sango_2026,
  title = {sango},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sango},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}