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dong

USDAWNG/dɔŋ/UKDONG/dɒŋ/

Pluraldong, dongs

Verbdongs, donging, donged

8 meanings of dong

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  1. 1
    nounslangcountable
    A rude slang word for a man's penis.

    He got hit in the dong by the ball and doubled over.

    Some kid drew a crude dong on the bathroom wall.

    Similardick, cock, schlong, willy

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  2. 2
    nouncountable
    A deep, ringing sound made by metal, like a large bell.

    Like the deep sound a big church bell makes when it is struck.

    The dong of the cathedral bell echoed across the valley.

    We heard a single dong from the clock tower at noon.

    Similarbong, clang, toll, peal

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  3. 3
    verbintransitive
    To make a deep, ringing sound, like a large bell.

    Like the deep sound a heavy bell makes each time it is hit.

    The big bell will dong when the hour comes.

    We heard the church bells dong across town.

    Similartoll, ring, chime, bong, clang

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  4. 4
    nounslangcountable
    A slang word for a silly or foolish person.

    Stop acting like a dong and just listen to me.

    I felt like a real dong when I forgot her name.

    Similaridiot, fool, dope, dork, plonker

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  5. 5
    nounslangcountable
    A sex toy shaped to look like a real penis.

    She found a dong in the drawer of the nightstand.

    The shop sold dongs in several different sizes.

    Similardildo

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  6. 6
    nouncountable
    The money used in Vietnam.

    She exchanged her dollars for dong at the airport in Hanoi.

    A bowl of noodle soup cost about forty thousand dong.

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  7. 7
    nouncountable
    A small district that is part of a city in Korea.

    She grew up in a quiet dong near the river.

    The city is divided into many dongs.

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  8. 8
    nounhistoricalcountable
    The money once used in South Vietnam.

    Back then, people in South Vietnam paid with the dong.

    Her grandfather still kept some old dong coins.

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Origins

Meanings 6, 8

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng. It goes back to Chinese words meaning "copper."

Meanings 1, 4–5

The origin is not known. It may come from "dingus" and other words for things people can't name, or from the sound of striking something, or maybe partly from "donkey." First seen in the 1890s.

Meanings 2–3

It imitates a sound.

Meaning 7

From Korean 동(洞) (dong), meaning "neighborhood."