ranga

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Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA: /ɹæŋə/

Noun

ranga (plural rangas)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
   • 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OQ3ZF5El5DQC&pg=PT233&dq=%22ranga%22|%22rangas%22+red+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iTD4T7_JG4apiAfD0bD_Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3W01pEah0qEC&pg=PR2&dq=%22ranga%22|%22rangas%22+red+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iTD4T7_JG4apiAfD0bD_Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ranga%22|%22rangas%22%20red%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h2xS7xjj75YC&pg=PT8&dq=%22ranga%22|%22rangas%22+red+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_Db4T8iyOsOhiQfCvsjzBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false unnumbered page],

     Fez′s resolutions: […]

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

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 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.

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