Mango
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
- US IPA: /ˈmæŋɡoʊ, ˈmeɪŋɡoʊ/
- Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ
Origin
From Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாஙà¯à®•à®¾à®¯à¯ from மா (mÄ, "mango species") + காய௠(kÄy, "unripe fruit").
Full definition of mango
Noun
- (botany) A tropical Asian fruit tree, .
- The fruit of the mango tree.
- A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
- 2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.
- (US, chiefly southern Midwest, dated) A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
- 1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, Page 222Mango 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 154Best mango peppers
- Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds.
- 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41Finally, 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.
- A type of muskmelon, .
- Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax. Also often capitalized: Mango
Verb
- (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.
- 2008, Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish (ISBN 1589804899), page 66:For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.