wong
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/wɒŋ/
(UK)
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/wɒŋ/ (UK) · /wɔŋ/ · /wɑŋ/ · /wɔːŋ/ (UK) · /wɔŋ/ (US) · /wɑŋ/ (US)
Definition of wong
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (dialectal, obsolete)A field or other piece of land.
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noun
- (dialectal, obsolete)A field or other piece of land.
- 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.
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(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 wong? Now would you have these good folk believe that the Jump Drive which propels our Void Ships from star to star consists of a goat copulating with the queen of the pig people?”
“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.”
verb
- To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
name
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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?”
“But Hong Kong-based cross-media artist Victor Wong didn’t think the painting — which looks like a blurry oil painting of a man — was anything that revolutionary.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
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