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/ˈnɪŋˌnɔŋ/ · noun
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A stupid person; an idiot..
2007, Ethel Chop (Andrea Powell), Strain Your Gherkins, unnumbered page, And you might not know this, but potatoes are in fact a symbol of communism. Well what′s vodka made from? It isn′t fairy floss! It's potatoes, ning-nong!
That “ning-nong of an MP” as Billy Lane calls him, Fred Brentnall, in his squeaky lorikeet voice reads to the House Lawson′s last two stanzas, just to highlight the danger besetting the colony of Queensland, indeed, the whole country:[…]
He wrote a series of articles about a gang of greenies who′ve been interfering with commercial dragnet fishing, setting off firebombs and creating a nuisance. Made them out to be a bunch of ning-nongs and thugs.
We felt like total ning-nongs.
Use ning-nong when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ning-nong means (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, slang) A stupid person; an idiot..
Common synonyms include nong.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2007, Ethel Chop (Andrea Powell), Strain Your Gherkins, unnumbered page, And you might not know this, but potatoes are in fact a symbol of communism. Well what′s vodka made from? It isn′t fairy floss! It's potatoes, ning-nong!
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