dong
Pluraldong, dongs
Pluraldong, dongs
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- 5A 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.
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- 6The 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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- 7A 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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- 8The 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
Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng. It goes back to Chinese words meaning "copper."
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.
It imitates a sound.
From Korean 동(洞) (dong), meaning "neighborhood."