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wong¹

  • /wɒŋ/ UK
  • /wɔŋ/ US
  • /wɑŋ/ cot caught merger

Where it comes from

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.

noun wongs

  1. dialectal, obsolete, in placenames A field, meadow, or other such piece of land.
  2. dialectal Low-lying land, usually marshy.

wong²

  • /wɒŋ/ UK
  • /wɔŋ/ US
  • /wɑŋ/ cot caught merger

Where it comes from

From the pen name Stanford Wong.

verb wongs · wonging · wonged

  1. To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.

wong³

  • /wɒŋ/ UK
  • /wɔŋ/ US
  • /wɑŋ/ cot caught merger

noun wongs

  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.

wong⁴

  • /wɒŋ/ UK
  • /wɔŋ/ US
  • /wɑŋ/ cot caught merger

Where it comes from

Related to wang.

noun wongs

  1. slang The penis. "Is it not enough that you have gifted Alia Haste Moguchi with a phallus and renamed her Faust? And proceeded to outfit him or her or it with the Goddess of Swine as consort? Vraiment, and styled the arcane spirit of We Who Have Gone Before as a slavering goat-creature with an enormous throbbing won

Wong⁵

  • /wɒŋ/ UK
  • /wɔːŋ/ UK
  • /wɔŋ/ US
  • /wɑŋ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒŋ

Where it comes from

From Cantonese, from Chinese:

* 王 (wong⁴, “king”). Doublet of Vuong and Wang.

* 黃／黄 (wong⁴, “yellow”). Doublet of Huynh and Huang.

* 汪 (wong¹).

proper noun Wongs

  1. A Chinese surname from Cantonese. Would Mr. Kim prefer that our biracial protagonists leave Master Wong to die? Is he ignoring the fact they save him with skills the master taught them?

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cloud, yellow, amber, ying, wang, mong, ming, pornography, ling, yin, imperial, emperor, king, vice, wayang, the

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@misc{wong_2026,
  title = {wong},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wong},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}