bong

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɑŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Onomatopoeic.

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?)

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.

Bong [1]

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). Ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.

bong (plural bongs)

1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
2. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
   • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115:

     Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.

3. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

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

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

1. (transitive, informal) To smoke a bong.

• hookah
• hubbly bubbly
• narghile
• pipe
• shisha

bong (plural bongs)

1. A very wide piton.

bong (plural bongs)

1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

• boong
• bung

bong (plural bongs)

1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

bong (plural boong)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔŋ]
• Hyphenation: bong

From Hokkien 墓 (bōng, “grave; tomb”). Compare Khmer ម៉ុង (mong).

bong (first-person possessive bongku, second-person possessive bongmu, third-person possessive bongnya)

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

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦁ (bong, “person other than a doctor who performs a circumcision”). Doublet of orang and wong.

bong (first-person possessive bongku, second-person possessive bongmu, third-person possessive bongnya)

1. traditional circumcisor (person who carries out circumcision)

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”), ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga).

bong (first-person possessive bongku, second-person possessive bongmu, third-person possessive bongnya)

1. vessel for smoking drug

• “bong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bong

1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦁ

From Portuguese bom

bong

1. good; well

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/

Borrowed from English bong.

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

1. a bong for smoking

• bøttebong
• ølbong

Borrowed from French bon (“good”).

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

1. a receipt from a totalizator

• “bong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

bong

1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

• bong in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• bong in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• bong in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 27.

Compare Dutch bang.

bong

1. fearful; afraid

• ääng

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]

bong

1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *boŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“yak”).

• IPA^(key): /bòŋ/
• Hyphenation: bong

bong

1. cow

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