Definitions for dongas

dongas don·ga

Spelling: [dong-guh, dawng-guh]
IPA: /ˈdɒŋ gə, ˈdɔŋ gə/

Dongas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in dongas (adgnos).

Definitions for dongas

noun

  1. (in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
  2. (in South Africa) an eroded ravine; a dry watercourse.

Origin of dongas

1875-80; Nguni (compare Zulu u(lu)donga); perhaps directly donga

Examples for dongas

Then suddenly the retiring Riflemen sprang up and ran for shelter in our donga.

There were only five or six of them, and they waited in a donga for reinforcements.

Just by the ambulance waggon he disappeared in a donga leading to the valley.

After a while one of the men wounded a buck, and they both rode into the donga after it.

Then he remembered that in his eagerness to get out he had left his knob-kerrie in the donga.

Mr. Quatermain has just said that the donga was filled by a roaring torrent.

They also took refuge in the donga, and waited for better times.

The gallant fellow managed to crawl to the group of castaways in the donga.

I rode back to the donga, and deliberated on the course to take.

Thirty yards or so from this, and in the donga, lay the corpse of the Prince Imperial.

Word Value for dongas
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Words with friends

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