different between bong vs billy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

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?)

Translations

Verb

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

From Thai ???? (b??ng, “a marijuana pipe”).

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
2. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
3. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

Synonyms

• (vessel for smoking): bucket bong, water pipe
• (device for consuming beer): beer bong

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

1. to smoke a bong

See also

• hookah
• hubbly bubbly
• narghile
• pipe
• shisha

Etymology 3

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. A very wide piton.

Etymology 4

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

• boong
• bung

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

Gilbertese

Noun

bong (plural boong)

1. Nighttime.
2. Dark.
3. A day of 24 hours.

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Min Nan ? (b?ng, “grave, tomb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??]
• Hyphenation: bong

Noun

bong

1. Chinese graveyard.
2. (Aceh) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) familial graveyard.

Etymology 2

From Javanese bong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??]
• Hyphenation: bong

Noun

bong

1. traditional circumcising person.

Etymology 3

From Thai ???? (b??ng, “cylinder, pipe, tube”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??]
• Hyphenation: bong

Noun

bong

1. vessel for smoking drug.

Further reading

• “bong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Palauan

Noun

bong

1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

Compare Dutch bang.

Adjective

bong

1. fearful; afraid

Related terms

• ääng

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??aw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??aw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??aw??m??]

Verb

bong

1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off

Derived terms

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??/

Noun

bong

1. cow

Derived terms

References

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

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

• Of obscure origin. Perhaps from the name Billy, a diminutive of William, or a variant of bully (“companion, mate, comrade”). Compare Scots billie (“a comrade; companion”).
• (condom): From the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy.

Noun

billy (plural billies)

1. A billy club.
2. A billy goat.
   • 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62,

     Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.

   • 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus), in Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, page 276,

     In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
   1. A male goat; a ram.
3. (Tyneside) A good friend.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. A slubbing or roving machine.
   • 1840, The Citizen, page 347,

     […] at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”

Derived terms

• billy buttons
• billy cart
• billygoat
• hillbilly
• Silly Billy, silly billy

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”).

Noun

billy (plural billies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.

   Let's get the billy and cook some beans.

   • 1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed, 2004, page 239,

     We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Loyalty," [4]

     Mother prepared a splendid picnic. […] Rugs, food and the black billy for making tea, were packed into the old baby buggy and we trundled it straight down Simcoe Street.

   • 2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, unnumbered page,

     Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.

2. (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.

Translations

Derived terms

• billy boy
• billy bread
• billycan, billy-can
• billyful
• billy lid
• billy tea
• Christmas billy

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Sceilig: Information Pack for Troops (p. 4)
• The Patrol goes to Camp (pp. 9, 11).