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発音

• (General Australian) IPA: /ɹæŋə/
• 韻: -æŋə

名詞

ranga (plural rangas)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
   • 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page:

     You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.

   • 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,

     Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.

   • 2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,

     Fez′s resolutions: […]

     3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 183:

     Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.

   • 2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles:

     SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

参考

• bloodnut
• Bluey
• ginger

アナグラム

• Nagra, Ragan, argan, grana