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dong

nounnounnounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɒŋ//
  • United States//dɔŋ//
  • //dɑŋ//

The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫

noun

  1. 1

    The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫

  2. 2

    historicalThe currency of South Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: Đ.

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅 /铜 (tóng, “copper”).

noun

  1. 1

    slangThe penis.

    "That American girl was after you too, wasn't she?" "She didn't mean anything she said. She was just after your dong. But it's mine." "For sure, Mary."

    Nevertheless, I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong once it started the climb up my belly.

    Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis? Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?

  2. 2

    slangA dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

  3. 3

    slangA fool.

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps suggested by dingus and other names for unnamable objects; perhaps suggesting of a sound of striking (perhaps the clapper of a bell; compare ding-dong); perhaps there is an element of donkey in it. First attested in the 1890s.

noun

  1. 1

    A low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

noun

  1. 1

    A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

Etymology

From Korean 동(洞) (dong, “neighborhood”).

Forms

plural
dongs
past tense
donged
past participle
donged
present participle
donging
third person singular
dongs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).