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Where does “sanggano” come from?

sanggano (Cebuano) comes from Spanish zángano — drone bee; idler, loafer; sponger, scrounger.

sanggano (Cebuano): a gangster

Definitions

  1. a gangster

Ancestry of “sanggano”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishzánganodrone bee; idler, loafer; sponger, scrounger
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