mango
noun
- fruit
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/ / /ˈmaŋɡəw/ / /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/
name
Etymology: Etymology tree Mango Mangobor. English Mango Borrowed from Mango Mango.
- a language spoken in Chad
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango 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.
- A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
“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.”
- The fruit of the mango tree.
“And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.”
- A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
“In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.”
- A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
“Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.”
“Best mango peppers”
- A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
- Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
- A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
- The breasts.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango 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.
- To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
“Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.”
“In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing" all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.”