wrongo

English

Etymology

From wrong +‎ -o.

Noun

wrongo (plural wrongos)

1. (slang) Synonym of wrong 'un (“dishonest or disreputable person”)
   • 2005, Before The Fall: An Inside View Of The Pre-Watergate White House, page 314:

     On Nixon's side, if you were not for us, you were against us; on the extreme anti-Nixon side, if you were for him, you were a wrongo; on the pro-Nixon zealot's side, a wrongo had no rights.

   • 2015, David Dodge, The Last Match:

     They kept pretty much to themselves, a difficult thing to do on a boat designed for overall togetherness extending to monkeys, marmosets, parrots and a four-foot alligator. He—the man, not the alligator—looked like a wrongo.

References

• Tony Thorne (2014) “wrongo”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury