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English

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Pronunciation

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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 on Wikipedia
Smoking bong (sense 1).
Beer bong (sense 3).

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

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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Translations
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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).

Noun

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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

Further reading

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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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Pronunciation

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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”).

Noun

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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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This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Noun

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bong

  1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

References

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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”).

Noun

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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

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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

References

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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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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bong

  1. cow

Derived terms

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References

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

Zyphe

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Noun

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bong

  1. thigh
  2. box

Verb

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bong

  1. to help

References

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  • Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎[1]
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