mongo

Noun

 * 1)  Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage.
 * 2) * 1984, [NYC] Issue 1-6, page 51:
 * The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabilitation program, which is the first since the Depression, the Sanmen never had their own furnishings.” Prior to the show, the Sanmen voted on the worst facilities in the system and Ukeles selected the exhibition mongo from them—shabby, broken-down furniture, walls cluttered with cheap
 * 1) * 2006, Fine Books & Collections, volume 4, page 56, reviewing MONGO: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha (2004):
 * [Mongo] refers to trash, or more specifically, to treasure found in trash: books, artifacts, furniture, even food. Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve around mongo. Those obsessed with mongo often live on the margins,

Etymology 3
. Compare 🇨🇬 /.

Noun

 * 1)  mung bean

Verb

 * 1) to eat

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) möngö one 100th of tugrik, the currency of Mongolia

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) möngö one hundredth of a tugrik

Etymology 2
Probably of origin.

Adjective

 * 1) of or pertaining to the

Noun

 * 1) one who is part of the Mongo people

Noun

 * 1) Mongo Bantu language

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  idiot

Adjective

 * 1)  idiot; fool; retarded

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) möngö

Noun

 * 1)  idiot

Adjective

 * 1)  idiotic

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  a person with Down's syndrome (or often a (congenital and) clearly noticeable disorder more generally)
 * 2)   an idiot and/or weirdo

Usage notes
Less associated with its etymology compared to and consequently less likely to offend in  (though cp is often fairly detached from its etymology as well).

Adjective

 * 1)  idiotic, stupid