dong

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /dɑŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duŋ, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅／铜 (tóng, “copper”).

• đồng (uncommon)

dong (plural dong or dongs)

1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
2. (historical) The currency of South Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: Đ.

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

dong (plural dongs)

1. (slang) The penis.
   • 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 344:

     "That American girl was after you too, wasn't she?"
     "She didn't mean anything she said. She was just after your dong. But it's mine."
     "For sure, Mary."

   • 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”, in 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. (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

• double dong

• ding-dong

Onomatopoeic

dong (plural dongs)

1. A low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

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

1. To make a low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

Korean 동(洞) (dong, “neighborhood”)

dong (plural dongs)

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

• dai pai dong (etymologically unrelated)
• dong quai (etymologically unrelated)

• Gond

Syncope of dorang.

dong

1. they

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ/

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• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dungō. Cognate to English dung.

dong m (uncountable)

1. (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure

   Synonym: mest

• Negerhollands: doeng

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng.

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoŋɡ]

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• Rhymes: -oŋɡ
• Homophone: đồng

From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1]

dong

1. (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
2. (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)

or

(With verbal prefixes):

See đồng.

dong

1. Nonstandard form of đồng (“dong”, the currency of Vietnam; usually used by thousands or higher denominations).[2]

• dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• dong in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -dɔŋ, -ɔŋ, -ŋ

From Betawi [Term?], from Dutch dong, dingen (“to solicit”), from Middle Dutch dingen (“to convene, to plead”), from Old Dutch *thingon, from Proto-Germanic *þingōną.

dong

1. (colloquial) please: used to make a polite request

   Harga Bensin Pertalite Jangan Naik Dong. ― Please, don't raise the Pertalite Petrol Price.

2. (colloquial) indicates a strong command
3. (colloquial) indicates discord between words and actions

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duŋ, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅／铜 (tóng, “copper”).

dong (first-person possessive dongku, second-person possessive dongmu, third-person possessive dongnya)

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

• “dong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Derived from English down.

dong

1. down
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 7:15:

     So Jiekob imself go dong a Iijip, an im an wi faada faada dem liv dong de til dem ded.

     So Jacob went down to Egypt where he and our fathers lived til they died.

• dong at majstro.com

dong

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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

dong

1. Alternative form of donge (“dung”)

Shortened form of kordong, itself possibly a mishearing of kondom

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

1. (slang) condom

• Hyphenation: dong

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

Borrowed from French dong.

dong m (plural dongi)

1. dong (currency)

• dong in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [jɔŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jawŋ͡m˧˧]

dong • (𢫝)

1. to drive; to escort

Attested as deaong in the Flora Cochinchinensis (1790, "Flora of Cochinchina").

(classifier cây) dong • (容)

1. Phrynium placentarium

• IPA^(key): /doŋ˧/

dong

1. (transitive) to solicit

• IPA^(key): /doŋ˧/

dong

1. (transitive) to intercept

• IPA^(key): /doŋ˧˥/

dóng

1. (transitive) to hinder

• IPA^(key): /doŋ˧˩/

dòng

1. (intransitive) to ask

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63