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bong

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English

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Noun

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bong (plural bongs)

  1. (slang) The clang of a large bell.
    • 1989, Malcolm Lynch, The kid from Angel Meadow, page 152:
      An argument began as to whether the trap door would open on the first bong of eight or the eighth bong of eight. A man said he'd been told on the wireless that it was the first bong of Big Ben in London which told the time, […]
  2. (slang) Doorbell chimes. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (slang, Internet, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong.
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Verb

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bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

  1. (slang) To pull a bell.
  2. (slang) To ring a doorbell.

Etymology 2

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Bong [1]

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). Ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.

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Noun

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bong (plural bongs)

  2. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
  3. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
    • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115:
      Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.
  4. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
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Verb

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bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

  1. (transitive, informal) To smoke a bong.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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bong (plural bongs)

  1. A very wide piton.

Etymology 4

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Noun

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bong (plural bongs)

  1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

Etymology 5

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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bong (plural bongs)

  1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

Gilbertese

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Noun

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bong (plural boong)

  1. Nighttime.
  2. Dark.
  3. A day of 24 hours.

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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From Hokkien 墓 (bōng, “grave; tomb”). Compare Khmer ម៉ុង (mong).

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bong

  1. Chinese graveyard
  2. (Aceh) familial graveyard

Etymology 2

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From Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦁ (bong, “person other than a doctor who performs a circumcision”). Doublet of orang and wong.

Noun

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bong

  1. traditional circumcisor (person who carries out circumcision)

Etymology 3

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From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”), ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga).

Noun

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bong

  1. vessel for smoking drug

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Javanese

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Romanization

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bong

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦁ

Kristang

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Etymology

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From Portuguese bom

Adjective

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bong

  1. good; well

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English bong.

Noun

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bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

  1. a bong for smoking
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French bon (“good”). Cognate with Swedish bong (“betting slip”).

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bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

  1. a receipt from a totalizator

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Palauan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bong

  1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

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  • bong in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • bong in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • bong in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 27.

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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Compare Dutch bang.

Adjective

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bong

  1. fearful; afraid
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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.[1]

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bong (“totalizator receipt”).

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bong c

  1. (restaurant) A kitchen ticket, an order ticket; a slip where waiting staff notes guests' orders, used by the kitchen or bar to prepare items, and to totaling the check.
  2. (gambling) A betting slip, a betting ticket; a slip on which a wager is recorded.
    Synonyms: insatskvitto, spelkvitto, spelkupong, talong, vadkvitto

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Derived terms

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  • bonga (“totalize order slips”, verb)
  • nollbong (“handrwitten order slip”)
  • travbong (“horse race betting slip”)

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  1. ^ bong in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Vietnamese

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Verb

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bong

  1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off

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Zou

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Etymology

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From Proto-Kuki-Chin *boŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“yak”).

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  • IPA(key): /bòŋ/
  • Hyphenation: bong

Noun

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bong

  1. cow

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References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41
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