different between dingus vs dong
dingus
English
Alternative forms
- dinges
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch dinges, ding (“thing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d????s/
Noun
dingus (plural dinguses)
- (informal, Canada, US) A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor.
- Synonyms: thingamajig; see also Thesaurus:thingy
- 1879, George Wilbur Peck, Peck's Fun, Being Extracts from the "La Crosse Sun," and "Peck's Sun," Milwaukee:
- "If anybody should come in, and catch you with your breeches, as it were, down on the floor, all you have to do is to drink the water, wrap the rubber dingus around you, and tell them to “lay on Macduff.”
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest:
- "He took the this-is-unheard-of-but-not-really-serious-of-course attitude of a street fakir whose mechanical dingus flops during a demonstration."
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 29:
- I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin 2001, p. 241:
- ‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?
- c. 2010, Van's Aircraft, RV-12 Plans, p. 5-30:
- "Drill #40 the .094 [2.4 mm] holes in the dingus. Dimple the #40 holes.”
- (informal, Canada, US) A fool or incompetent person.
- Synonym: doofus
- (slang, vulgar) penis
- Synonyms: dink; see also Thesaurus:penis
- 1970, Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati, Trident Press (1970), ?ISBN, page 74:
- "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess. […]
Anagrams
- gnudis, gundis, undigs
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dong
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)
- 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)
- (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?
- Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
- 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
- (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)
- 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)
- Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.
Etymology 4
Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.
Anagrams
- Gond, gnod
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Syncope of dorang.
Pronoun
dong
- 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)
- (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure
- Synonym: mest
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.
Noun
dong m (plural dongs)
- dong, the currency of Vietnam
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
dong
- 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
- (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
- (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
- Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
- 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
- Alternative form of donge
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)
- (slang) condom
Portuguese
Noun
dong m (plural dongs)
- 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
- drive, escort
Noun
(classifier cây) dong
- Phrynium placentarium
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ù??
Etymology
From dyngj.
Noun
dong m (definite dongen)
- 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
- (transitive) to solicit
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do??/
Verb
dong
- (transitive) to intercept
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do???/
Verb
dóng
- (transitive) to hinder
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do???/
Verb
dòng
- (intransitive) to ask
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63
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