Ongang

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A start-up; beginning; commencement (of activity, work, machinery, etc.); a setting in motion. UK, dialectal, obsolete
  2. 2
    Rowdy or unrestrained behaviour; antics. UK, dialectal, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English *ongang, *ongong, from Old English ongang (“entrance, incursion, irruption, assault, attack; worship”), equivalent to on- + gang.

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