wrongoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wrongo (複数形 wrongos)

1. (slang) Synonym of wrong 'un (“dishonest または disreputable person”)
   • 2005, Before The Fall: An Inside View Of The Pre-Watergate White House (page 314)

     On Nixon's side, if you were not for us, you were against us; on the extreme anti-Nixon side, if you were for him, you were a wrongo; on the pro-Nixon zealot's side, a wrongo had no rights.

   • 2015, David Dodge, The Last Match

     They kept pretty much to themselves, a difficult thing to do on a boat designed for overall togetherness extending to monkeys, marmosets, parrots and a four-foot alligator. He—the man, not the alligator—looked like a wrongo.

参照

• Tony Thorne (2014), “wrongo”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London; […]: Bloombury