Mong

[Jesse Sheidlower]

> A news report, which is available at
> http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_473532.html, states that an
> 83-year-old Australian man stabbed his wife to death because she called him
> a "mong."
>
> What is a "mong"?

Presumably this would be Australian slang _mong_ 'a desicable person',
ultimately from _mongrel_, and not to be confused with British slang
_mong_ 'an idiot; fool', from _Mongol_.

Jesse Sheidlower
Oxford English Dictionary