different between lizard vs kong

English

Etymology

From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus. Displaced native Middle English aske (“newt, lizard”); see ask.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?z.?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?z.?d/

Noun

lizard (plural lizards)

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
2. (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown

3. (colloquial) An unctuous person.
4. (colloquial) A coward.
5. (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
6. (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

   lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

Derived terms

Translations

Middle English

Noun

lizard

1. Alternative form of lesarde

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese ? (gàng).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

kong (plural kongs)

1. (mahjong) A set of four identical tiles.

Translations

Coordinate terms

• chow
• pung

Anagrams

• gonk

Danish

Etymology

A pretonic form of konge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?/, [k???]

Noun

kong

1. king (used as a title before the name of a king)

See also

• grev

Hungarian

Etymology

From a sound-imitative root + -g (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ko??]
• Rhymes: -o??

Verb

kong

1. (intransitive) to resound

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• kongás
• kongat
• kong-bong

Related terms

• kondít
• kondul
• kongat

References

Further reading

• kong 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

Mandarin

Romanization

kong

1. Nonstandard spelling of k?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of k?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kòng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of kõng.

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.

Min Nan

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kaun

Noun

kong m (definite singular kongen, indefinite plural konger, definite plural kongene)

1. boil, carbuncle, abscess

Etymology 2

From konge (“king”)

Noun

kong (indeclinable)

1. The titular prefix given to a king

   kong Haakon VII

Related terms

• konge

References

• “kong” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kong” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kaun n.

Alternative forms

• kaun

Noun

kong m (definite singular kongen, indefinite plural kongar, definite plural kongane)

1. boil, carbuncle, abscess

Etymology 2

From konge (“king”)

Noun

kong (indeclinable)

1. The titular prefix given to a king

   kong Haakon VII

Related terms

• konge

References

• “kong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.