Dong
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
- 2 The penis. slang
""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.""
- 3 A low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.
- 4 A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.
- 5 the basic unit of money in Vietnam wordnet
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- 6 The currency of South Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: Đ. historical
- 7 A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. broadly, slang
- 8 A fool. slang
- 1 To make a low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.
- 2 go ‘ding dong’, like a bell wordnet
- 1 A surname.
"Tung Chung-shu of the Han describes the emotional nature of T’ien in the following words: “Heaven has its own feelings of joy and anger and a mind which experiences sadness and pleasure, analogous to those of man.”⁵⁴"
Example
More examples"Dong Energy will build the world's largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Britain."
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅 /铜 (tóng, “copper”).
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.
Onomatopoeic.
From Korean 동(洞) (dong, “neighborhood”).