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nongkrong

nong-KRONG[nɔŋˈkrɔŋ]

Pronunciation: Speaker: Sofi Solihah · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

sitting about together for hours, with nothing in particular to do

Closest in English: loafing, lounging, chilling. None of them covers it.

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The story

The dictionary files it under tongkrong, to squat, which is exactly the posture: on your heels by the roadside with one iced coffee, several hours gone. Indonesian gets a noun out of it as well, tongkrongan, meaning both the spot and the crowd you find there.

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  1. Which language is it from?Indonesian (Java)
  2. Who says it most often?Teenagers outside a shop at night
  3. Where would you hear it?A warung with plastic chairs at dusk
  4. What does it mean?Sitting about together with no plan

How it went

Harder than most words so far.

Round two, speaker, was where most points went.

The most common guesses for the translation were 'loitering' and 'loiter'. Close, but not it.

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