wong
nounverbnounnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//wɒŋ//
- United States//wɔŋ//
- //wɑŋ//
Low-lying land, usually marshy.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA field, meadow, or other such piece of land.
- 2
Low-lying land, usually marshy.
Etymology
From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), from Proto-West Germanic *wang, from Proto-Germanic *wangaz. Cognate with Danish vang.
verb
- 1
To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
Etymology
From the pen name Stanford Wong.
noun
- 1
In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.
noun
- 1
slangThe penis.
In fact, just last year Shorty had somehow gotten his penis caught in a bracelet, Sabrina had rolled away, he'd screamed, his wong had practically been severed in two, and, in fact, a vein had been crushed, some permanent damage done.
Etymology
Related to wang.
Forms
- plural
- wongs
- past tense
- wonged
- past participle
- wonged
- present participle
- wonging
- third person singular
- wongs