bong

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Onomatopoeic.

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.

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.

 bong on Wikipedia

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

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.

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

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

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

• hookah
• hubbly bubbly
• narghile
• pipe
• shisha

bong (plural bongs)

1. A very wide piton.

bong (plural bongs)

1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

• boong
• bung

bong (plural bongs)

1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

bong (plural boong)

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

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

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

bong

1. Chinese graveyard
2. (Aceh) familial graveyard

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

bong

1. traditional circumcisor (person who carries out circumcision)

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

bong

1. vessel for smoking drug

• “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.

bong

1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦁ

From Portuguese bom

bong

1. good; well

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/

Borrowed from English bong.

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

1. a bong for smoking

• bøttebong
• ølbong

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

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

1. a receipt from a totalizator

• “bong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

bong

1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

• 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.

Compare Dutch bang.

bong

1. fearful; afraid

• ääng

Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.^[1]

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

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

• kvitto
• kontrollmärke

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

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key): ~
• (Saigon) IPA^(key):

bong

1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off

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

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

bong

1. cow

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

bong

1. thigh
2. box

bong

1. to help

• Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎