Donga

Quick meaning: Donga is a noun meaning (South Africa) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.

Meaning

(South Africa) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.

More Meanings

1. (Australia) A transportable building providing accommodation for one person, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
2. Alternative spelling of donger (“penis”).

Example Sentences

Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head.

He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman′s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.

Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.

Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.

Word Forms

• dongas

Synonyms for donga

Depending on context, synonyms include arroyo, wadi, wash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include asian, dong, east, dallol, donger, draw.

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