wong
Low-lying land, usually marshyLow-lying land, usually marshy.
» I turned right on Wong street.
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4 senses(dialectal)Low-lying land, usually marshy.
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.
(slang)The penis.
(dialectal, obsolete)A field, meadow, or other such piece of land.
Examples
3 sentencesI turned right on Wong street.
Ellen Wong is a Cambodian-Canadian actress who is well known in Hollywood.
This is me, Aunt Wong.
Origin
From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), froFrom 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.
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