Do You Know Your Tango From a Tingo? ; It's a Great New Family Challenge Based On Call My Bluff. Can You Spot the Real Meaning of These Weird Words From Around the World?
Daily Mail › December 27, 2007
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TOUJOURS TINGO, by Adam Jacot de Boinod, is a new glossary of extraordinary words and phrases from around the world. Call My Bluff was the legendary BBC quiz show in which teams attempted to spot the true meanings of unlikely words. Now, in a special Christmas brain- teaser, DAVID THOMAS presents Call My Tingo Bluff and asks: can you guess the real meanings of these multi-lingual mysteries?
1. Tingo is: a. The Bulgarian name for the soft drink Tango.See the full content of this document
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Do You Know Your Tango From a Tingo? ; It's a Great New Family Challenge Based On Call My Bluff. Can You Spot the Real Meaning of These Weird Words From Around the World?
b. The first person singular of the Romani verb meaning to ring a bell.
c. An Easter Island verb meaning to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there are none left.2. Stonko, ah chop and hamjambo are, respectively, the Muskogee (Native American), Aramaic (Syrian) and Kiswahili (South East African) terms for: a. Brilliant! b. How are you? c. Cheerio!3. 'Junken a munken, a sucka sucka po, wailuku wailuku, bum bum show', is the Hawaiian Pidgin ...See the full content of this document
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