Pronunciation Noun
mango
- A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
- 1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146:
- On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.
- 1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146:
- The fruit of the mango tree.
- 1738, October–November, Hans Sloan, Philosophical Transactions, volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by Thomas Stack, Royal Society (1741), page 376 ↗:
- And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.
- 1738, October–November, Hans Sloan, Philosophical Transactions, volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by Thomas Stack, Royal Society (1741), page 376 ↗:
- A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mango#Verb|mangoed.
- 2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335:
- In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.
- 2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335:
- (US, chiefly, southern Midwest US, dated) A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
- 1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222:
- Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.
- 1896, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 154:
- Best mango peppers
- 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41:
- Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers.
- 1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222:
- A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
- Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
- A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
- French: mangue
- German: Mango
- Italian: mango
- Portuguese: manga
- Russian: ма́нго
- Spanish: mango, (Eastern Bolivia) manga, (Puerto Rico) mangó
mango (mangoes, present participle mangoing; past and past participle mangoed)
- (uncommon) To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
- 1870, Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book, page 444:
- Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.
- 1989, William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art:
- In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing" all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.
- 1870, Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book, page 444:
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