ranga

See also: ränga

English

Etymology

Corruption of orangutan; popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɹæŋə/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -æŋə

Noun

ranga (plural rangas)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
2. Most common Ranga name is Laura.
   • 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page,

     You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.

   • 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,

     Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.

   • 2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,

     Fez′s resolutions: […]

     3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 183:

     Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.

Usage notes

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

See also

• Bluey

Anagrams

• Nagra, Ragan, argan, grana

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Irish

Noun

ranga

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of rang

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Portuguese

Verb

ranga

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Rapa Nui

Noun

ranga

1. war refugee, fugitive

Derived terms

• kohau ranga