different between chop vs dong

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ch?p, IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Hyphenation: chop
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *?ippian (in for?ippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

Noun

chop (plural chops)

2. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
   • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:

     I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.

3. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.

4. (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

5. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
6. (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

7. (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
8. (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
9. (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop.

Synonyms

• (dismissal, especially from employment (informal)): axe, pink slip, sack

Translations

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????

Verb

chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

1. (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

   chop wood; chop an onion

2. (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.

   Chop off his head.

3. (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
4. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
5. (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
7. (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
8. (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
   • 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward

     This fellow […] interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.

9. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).

Verb

chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

1. (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.

2. To chap or crack.
3. (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.

   The wind chops about.

4. (obsolete) To twist words.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

     Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.

5. To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

Noun

chop (plural chops)

1. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)

Derived terms

• chop and change
• chops and changes

Etymology 3

Perhaps a variant of chap (“jaw”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).

Noun

chop (plural chops)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
2. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
3. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

   East Chop; West Chop

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (ch?p, “stamp”)

Noun

chop (plural chops)

2. An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.
3. A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.

   silk of the first chop

4. A license or passport that has been sealed.
5. A complete shipment.

   a chop of tea

Derived terms

• chop dollar
• grand chop

Etymology 5

Shortening.

Noun

chop (plural chops)

1. (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
   • 1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)

     IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.

Synonyms

• chanop
• op

See also

• chop chop

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

chop

1. eat
2. spend

Silesian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xolp?.

Noun

chop m

1. man, male

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng, from Middle Chinese ? (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin ? (tóng)), from Old Chinese ? (*l?o?).

Noun

dong (plural dongs or dong)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. (slang) A penis.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Related terms

• ding-dong

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

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

Translations

Verb

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.

Etymology 4

Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

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

Anagrams

• Gond, gnod

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Syncope of dorang.

Pronoun

dong

1. they

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

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

Noun

dong m (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: mest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do??]
• Rhymes: -o??
• Homophone: ??ng

Verb

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)

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• dongás
• dongó

(With verbal prefixes):

See also

• ??ng (“currency of Vietnam”)

References

Further reading

• dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). 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 2021)

Mandarin

Romanization

dong

1. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dòng.

Usage notes

• 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.

Middle English

Noun

dong

1. Alternative form of donge

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. (slang) condom

Portuguese

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

dong

1. drive, escort

Noun

(classifier cây) dong

1. Phrynium placentarium

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ù??

Etymology

From dyngj.

Noun

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

Zou

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to solicit

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to intercept

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dóng

1. (transitive) to hinder

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dòng

1. (intransitive) to ask

References

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