fong

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

fong

  1. (Ireland, slang) a kick
    • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, Scribner-Simon & Schuster, New York: 1996, p 147.
      'Get away from my door or I'll come out and give every one o' ye a good fong in the hole of yeer arse.'

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin fungus, or possibly a calque of Spanish hongo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fong m (plural fongs)

  1. fungus
  2. mushroom
    Synonym: bolet

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Kosraean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Oceanic *boŋi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀŋi, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀŋi. Compare Pohnpeian pwohng, Marshallese boñ, Fijian pogi, Rotuman pogi and Hawaiian .

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fong

  1. night

Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English thong, thwong, from Old English þwang, from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fong

  1. A thin strip of raw hide used by saddlers in sewing.

References[edit]

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136