nongkrong
Language: Indonesian · [nɔŋˈkrɔŋ] · Pronunciation: nong-KRONG
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Pronunciation: Speaker: Sofi Solihah · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
sitting about together for hours, with nothing in particular to do
The story
The dictionary files it under tongkrong, to squat, which is exactly the posture: on your heels by the roadside with one iced coffee, several hours gone. Indonesian gets a noun out of it as well, tongkrongan, meaning both the spot and the crowd you find there.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Indonesian (Java)
- Who says it most often?
- Teenagers outside a shop at night
- Where would you hear it?
- A warung with plastic chairs at dusk
- What does it mean?
- Sitting about together with no plan
How it went
Harder than most words so far.
Round two, speaker, was where most points went.
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