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Meaning of megombo



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megombo
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It is an ingenious neologism that would mean "scandal or very big bull, situation with a very serious problem". And the origin is in the word quilombo or kilombo, which in joking form is assumed with the prefix kilo- ("per thousand") and is changed to mega- ("per million"), implying that it is even larger. By some mistake see Negombo, mogambo.

  



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The correct term is Negombo, with n at the beginning. It is the name of a town in Sry Lamka (formerly Ceylon) that belongs to gampaha District, Western Province. It is also named after a beach on the Indian Ocean in that same region.

  










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