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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drongo \Dron"go\, n.; pl. Drongos. (Zo["o]l.) A passerine bird of the family Dicrurid[ae]. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
Wiktionary
Etymology 2 alt. Any bird of the family Dicruridae. n. Any bird of the family Dicruridae. Etymology 3
n. (context Australia New Zealand slang pejorative English) A fool, an idiot.
Wikipedia
The drongos, subfamily Dicrurinae, are a subfamily of small passerine birds of the Old World tropics in the family Dicruridae. Originally the family included the single genus Dicrurus (subfamily Dicrurinae), but now it has been expanded to include the subfamilies Rhipidurinae ( Australasian fantails), Monarchinae ( monarchs and paradise flycatchers) and Grallininae (magpie-larks). The subfamily Dicrurinae contains two genera, the monotypic Chaetorhynchus, and Dicrurus, which contains about 25 species. The placement of the pygmy drongo (Chaetorhynchus papuensis) in the subfamily is in dispute on morphological and genetic grounds.
Drongos are mostly black or dark grey, short-legged birds, with an upright stance when perched. They have forked tails and some have elaborate tail decorations. They feed on insects which they catch in flight or on the ground. Some species are accomplished mimics and have a variety of alarm calls, to which other birds and animals often respond. It has been suggested they may utter hoax alarm calls in order to benefit from the false alarms, a matter of interest to researchers.
Drongo is a fictional character in Chingiz Abdullayev's Drongo series. The character first appeared in Blue Angels.
Usage examples of "drongo".
Butch Drongo had obtained those services through the inspiration of a broken napoleon.
Within the folder were photographs and documents, all bearing reference to the racketeer called Butch Drongo, whose initials, J.
Two rowdies - former henchmen of Butch Drongo - were still at their appointed posts.
All the coolness which had once made Curt useful to Butch Drongo was returned.
There were squadrons of jet-black drongos with long forked tails, starlings of iridescent malachite green, rollers and bee-eaters in jewelled colours of turquoise and sunlight yellow, carmine and purple, jinking and whirling in full flight, ecstatic with greed.
More wonderfully dangerous than ever, now that the drongos had messed up with that other woman.
Drongos, looking like jet black flycatchers, flitted from bush to bush in the dry burned scrub and I lay there watching the light grow fast until the sun came up and the bare steep walls of Lolokwe turned blood-red.
There were a Papuan lory, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, the chiffchaff and kookaburra bird, laughing jackass and motmot, chachalaca, drongo and poor old puffin.
I must say I'm really glad to see you drongos and no two ways about it!
Drongo stared into the screen, challenging the Mollies, his heart pounding.