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  • tingo (Pascuense, Easter Island)

    to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them

    March 20, 2008

  • Now that's a word!

    March 20, 2008

  • Heeeyyy...I think this is my brother!

    March 20, 2008

  • I bought The meaning of tingo today. As soon as I looked for Italian words, I found some weakness here and there. So I'm going to create a boring list about that. Stay tuned.

    April 13, 2008

  • @Prolagus: Can you tell us what noises Italian Rice Krispies make, so that I can add it to my list?

    Grazie mille.

    April 13, 2008

  • Here is the (open) list: Don't mean a tingo.

    April 13, 2008

  • First person singular of the Latin verb meaning "wet, moisten; bathe" and thus "dye, stain". From this come our words 'tinge', 'tincture', 'tint'. So now you know.

    April 9, 2009

  • Tingo – Continuously borrowing items from a neighbor’s house and not returning them, thereby gradually stealing everything from them one-by-one until there is nothing left.

    May 21, 2024