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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /dɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /dɑŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ

語源 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅 / 铜 (tóng, “copper”).

別の表記

• đồng (uncommon)

名詞

dong (plural dong or dongs)

1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
2. (historical) The currency of South Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: Đ.

語源 2

Unknown. Perhaps suggested by dingus and other names for unnamable objects; perhaps suggesting of a sound of striking (perhaps the clapper of a bell; compare ding-dong); perhaps there is an element of donkey in it. First attested in the 1890s.

名詞

dong (plural dongs) (originally US)

1. (slang) The penis.
   • 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 344:

     "That American girl was after you too, wasn't she?"
     "She didn't mean anything she said. She was just after your dong. But it's mine."
     "For sure, Mary."

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, page 18:

     Nevertheless, I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong once it started the climb up my belly.

   • 1983, “Penis Song”, in 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.
3. (slang) A fool.

同意語

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

派生語

関連する語

• ding-dong

語源 3

Onomatopoeic.

名詞

dong (plural dongs)

1. A low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

動詞

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

1. To make a low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

語源 4

From Korean 동(洞) (dong, “neighborhood”).

名詞

dong (plural dongs)

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

参考

• dai pai dong (etymologically unrelated)
• dong quai (etymologically unrelated)

参照

• “dong n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

アナグラム

• Gond