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 Re: call it a day,mongy,menial,apparel,poverty,battery,ridicule, benign neglect
Mongy is a negative word, but one that does have some unpleasant connotations, and it could cause offence- it's an abbreviation of 'mongolism', which is an old term for Downs Syndrome. |