English

Noun

ranga ‎(plural rangas)

1. (Australia, slang, pejorative) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
   • 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, 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, 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, unnumbered page,

     Fez′s resolutions: […]

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

Usage notes

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

See also

• Bluey

Anagrams

• argan, grana

Irish

Noun

ranga

1. genitive singular of rang

Rapa Nui

Noun

ranga

1. war refugee, fugitive

Derived terms

• kohau ranga