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  • noun Plural form of mong.

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Examples

  • The use of terms like 'mongs' and 'windowlickers' is bad enough but the images they write about are violent and purile and beyond disturbing.

    Go! Now! Start! Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • The people I work with are not faceless 'mongs' (how I hate that word) to me, they are real people, with real feelings, who get really hurt from namecalling and general disrespect.

    Go! Now! Start! Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • Writers stating that 'mongs' are good for sexual purposes.

    Go! Now! Start! Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • I had wukked 'long wid Dave so much dat I knowed his tracks: he had a monst'us long foot, wid a holler instep, w'ich wuz sump'n skase 'mongs' black folks.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • She looked lack a 'angel befo', but now, up dere 'mongs' all dem rich, fine folks, she looks lack a whole flock er angels.

    The House Behind the Cedars 1900

  • I had wukked 'long wid Dave so much dat I knowed his tracks: he had a monst'us long foot, wid a holler instep, w'ich wuz sump'n skase 'mongs' black folks.

    Dave's Neckliss 1889

  • Does I shin aroun 'mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill do b'long to, en han 'it over to de right one, all safe en soun', de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would?

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • Her comin's en her gwines is des like one er dy angels er mercy; she scatters bread en meat 'mongs' dem w'at's lonesome in der ways, en dem w'at runs up en down in de middle er big tribalation.

    Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Does I shin aroun 'mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill DO b'long to, en han 'it over to de right one, all safe en soun', de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would?

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Mark Twain 1872

  • Does I shin aroun 'mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill DO b'long to, en han 'it over to de right one, all safe en soun', de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would?

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

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