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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pɹɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /pɹɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /pɹɑŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ

名詞

prong (plural prongs)

1. A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.

   Synonym: tine

   a pitchfork with four prongs

2. (sometimes figurative) A branch; a fork.

   the two prongs of a river

   the second prong of the argument

3. (Cornwall) A fork (agricultural tool).
   • 1874, Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe, Bygone days in Devonshire and Cornwall, page 104:

     […] a tradition is recorded that a man called 'Ralph' resided in this cavern for many years, and, with a prong as his weapon, successively kept the bailiffs at bay.

4. (colloquial) The penis.
   • 1977, John Ironstone, Orphan, page 102:

     One look at that lifeguard's prong gave me a throbber like a baseball bat — not quite that big, of course, but at least that hard!

   • 2008, Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle podcast, episode 34, You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.

     Hang on... That looks like... No, it can't be. Is that my wang!? Micky Paintbrush, have you painted my papal prong on that nudy man!?

派生語

参考

• tine
• tooth

動詞

prong (third-person singular simple present prongs, present participle pronging, simple past and past participle pronged)

1. To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong.
   • 1926 December, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Impending Doom”, in Very Good, Jeeves!, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited […], published 20 June 1930, →OCLC, page 15:

     He uncovered the fragrant eggs and b., and I pronged a moody forkful.