bong

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bong"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɑŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. (slang) The clang of a large bell.
   • 1989, Malcolm Lynch, The kid from Angel Meadow, page 152:

     An argument began as to whether the trap door would open on the first bong of eight or the eighth bong of eight. A man said he'd been told on the wireless that it was the first bong of Big Ben in London which told the time, […]

2. (slang) Doorbell chimes. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (slang, Internet, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong.

Derived terms

• Britbong

 

Translations

clang of a large bell

• Finnish: kumahdus (fi)
• Polish: dzyń (pl), bim-bam
• Russian: бом (ru) (bom), бум (ru) (bum)

doorbell chimes

• Czech: zvonek (cs) m
• Finnish: kello (fi)
• Polish: dzwonki m pl
• Russian: дзынь (dzynʹ), дзинь (ru) (dzinʹ), дзень (ru) (dzenʹ), динь (ru) (dinʹ)

Verb

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

1. (slang) To pull a bell.
2. (slang) To ring a doorbell.

Etymology 2

Smoking bong (sense 1).

Beer bong (sense 3).

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). Ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

2. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
3. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
   • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115:

     Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.

4. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

Synonyms

• (vessel for smoking): bucket bong, moof, water pipe
• (device for consuming beer): beer bong

Derived terms

Derived terms

• beer bong
• bong hit
• bongcloud
• bongful
• bongwater
• bucket bong
• gravity bong
• water bong
• waterfall bong

Translations

vessel used in smoking various substances

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大麻煙槍／大麻烟枪 (dàmá yānqiāng)

• Esperanto: akvopipo
• Finnish: huumepiippu, bongi (fi) (colloquial)
• French: bang (fr) m
• Indonesian: bong (id)
• Lithuanian: bongas (lt) m
• Polish: fajka wodna f
• Russian: бонг (ru) m (bong)
• Spanish: pipa (es) f

device for rapidly consuming beer

• Finnish: letku (fi)
• Polish: lejek z wężem m
• Spanish: tuberia de barrilete f

Verb

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

1. (transitive, informal) To smoke a bong.

See also

• hookah
• hubbly bubbly
• narghile
• pipe
• shisha

Etymology 3

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. A very wide piton.

Etymology 4

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

• boong
• bung

Noun

bong (plural bongs)

1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

Gilbertese

Noun

bong (plural boong)

1. Nighttime.
2. Dark.
3. A day of 24 hours.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔŋ]
• Rhymes: -bɔŋ
• Hyphenation: bong

Etymology 1

From Hokkien 墓 (bōng, “grave; tomb”). Compare Khmer ម៉ុង (mong).

Noun

bong

1. Chinese graveyard
2. (Aceh) familial graveyard

Etymology 2

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦁ (bong, “person other than a doctor who performs a circumcision”). Doublet of orang and wong.

Noun

bong

1. traditional circumcisor (person who carries out circumcision)

Etymology 3

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”), ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga).

Noun

bong

1. vessel for smoking drug

Further reading

• “bong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

bong

1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦁ

Kristang

Etymology

From Portuguese bom

Adjective

bong

1. good; well

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bong.

Noun

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

1. a bong for smoking

Derived terms

• bøttebong
• ølbong

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bon (“good”). Cognate with Swedish bong (“betting slip”).

Noun

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

1. a receipt from a totalizator

References

• “bong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Palauan

Noun

bong

1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

References

• bong in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• bong in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• bong in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 27.

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

Compare Dutch bang.

Adjective

bong

1. fearful; afraid

Related terms

• ääng

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bong (“totalizator receipt”).

Noun

bong c

1. (restaurant) A kitchen ticket, an order ticket; a slip where waiting staff notes guests' orders, used by the kitchen or bar to prepare items, and to totaling the check.
2. (gambling) A betting slip, a betting ticket; a slip on which a wager is recorded.

   Synonyms: insatskvitto, spelkvitto, spelkupong, talong, vadkvitto

Synonyms

• kvitto
• kontrollmärke

Derived terms

• bonga (“totalize order slips”, verb)
• nollbong (“handrwitten order slip”)
• travbong (“horse race betting slip”)

References

• bong in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bong in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]

Verb

bong

1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bong gân
• bong tróc

 

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *boŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“yak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bòŋ/
• Hyphenation: bong

Noun

bong

1. cow

Derived terms

• bongsa

 

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41