Meaning

4 senses

  1. (dialectal)Low-lying land, usually marshy.

  2. 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.

  3. (slang)The penis.

  4. (dialectal, obsolete)A field, meadow, or other such piece of land.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. I turned right on Wong street.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Hybrid · A1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. Ellen Wong is a Cambodian-Canadian actress who is well known in Hollywood.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Hybrid · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. This is me, Aunt Wong.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · shayan · A1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), fro

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.

Related to wang.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: wongs
Singularwong
Pluralwongs

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wonderfullywonderlandwondrousB2wonkywont
wong — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto