dong

See also: dòng, dōng, döng, dǒng, dộng, and Appendix:Variations of "dong"

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin 铜 (tóng)), from Old Chinese 銅 (*lˁoŋ).

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

  1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

  1. (slang) A penis.
    • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, page 18:
      Nevertheless, I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong once it started the climb up my belly.
    • 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
      Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
      Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
  2. (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.
Synonyms
  • (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

  1. Onomatopoeia for the sound made by a bell with a low pitch.
Translations

Verb

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

  1. To make a low-pitched sound from a bell

Etymology 4

Korean 동 (dong, “neighborhood”)

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

  1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

See also

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔŋ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔŋ

Etymology 1

Cognate to English dung.

Noun

dong m (uncountable)

  1. (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure
    Synonym: mest

Etymology 2

Noun

dong c (plural dongs)

  1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

dong

  1. singular past indicative of dingen

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia +‎ -g (“frequentative suffix”). [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdoŋɡ]
  • Audio(file)

Verb

dong

  1. (intransitive) to buzz

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

Mandarin

Romanization

dong

  1. Nonstandard spelling of dōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of dǒng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of dòng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)

  1. (slang) condom

Portuguese

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

  1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

dong

  1. drive, escort

Noun

(classifier cây) dong

  1. Phrynium placentarium

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ùŋɡ

Etymology

From dyngj.

Noun

dong m (definite dongen)

  1. droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn
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