dong

• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin 铜 (tóng)), from Old Chinese 銅 (*lˁoŋ).

dong (plural dongs or dong)

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

Origin 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) A penis.
   • 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" (from 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.

Onomatopoeic

dong (plural dongs)

1. Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.

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

1. Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.

Korean 동 (dong, “neighborhood”)

dong (plural dongs)

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

• ding dong

• Gond, gnod

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

Cognate to English dung.

dong m (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: mest

dong c (plural dongs)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

See the etymology of the main entry.

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoŋɡ]

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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)

• dongás
• dongó

(With verbal prefixes):

• körüldong

dong

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

dong

1. Alternative form of donge

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

1. (slang) condom

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

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

dong

1. drive, escort

(classifier cây) dong

1. Phrynium placentarium

• Rhymes: -ùŋɡ

From dyngj.

dong m (definite dongen)

1. droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn