thong

See also thông, and thống

English

Etymology

Akin to Old Norse þvengr (“thong, latchet”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: thŏng, IPA: /θɒŋ/, SAMPA: /TQN/

Noun

thong (plural thongs)

1. A strip of leather.
2. (Australian, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour.
3. (UK, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.

Synonyms

• (an item of footwear): flip-flop, jandal (New Zealand)
• (a undergarment or swimwear): G-string, butt floss

Translations

leather strip

Finnish: nahkahihna (fi), hihna (fi) French: lanière (fr) f. German: Lederriemen Hungarian: szíj (hu)

Portuguese: tira de couro (pt) f. Russian: ремень (ru) m. Scottish Gaelic: iall (gd) f. !Xóõ: g!kxʻāla

footwear

Dutch: slipper (nl) Finnish: varvassandaalit (fi) pl. French: tongs (fr) f. pl. Hungarian: lábujjközös papucs (hu), (slang or colloquial) tangapapucs (hu) Polish: japonki (pl) pl.

Portuguese: sandália (pt) f., sandália japonesa (pt) f., sandália havaiana (pt) f. Russian: вьетнамки (ru) (v'jetnámki) f. pl., сланцы (ru) (sláncy) pl., шлёпанцы (ru) (šljópancy) pl. Spanish: chancla (es) f., bamba (es) f.

underwear

Catalan: tanga m. Dutch: string (nl) m., string (nl) Finnish: stringit (fi) pl., tanga (fi) French: string (fr) m., tanga (fr) m. German: String (de) m., Stringtanga (de) m. Hungarian: tanga (hu) Italian: tanga (it) m., perizoma (it) m.

Latin: perizoma (la) m. Maltese: tanga f., qalziet tal-ħajta m. Polish: stringi (pl) pl. Portuguese: tanga (pt) f. Russian: стринги (ru) pl. Spanish: tanga m. (Spain), tanga f. (Latin America), colaless m., zunga f.

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Korean: 티팬티, T팬티 Shona: patapata

Vietnamese: Thong (1), shortman

See also

• sandal