wong

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

noun

A field, meadow, or other such piece of land.

CommonScrabble 8

Meanings

wong1

nounwong (plural wongs)

plural wongs

  1. dialectalobsoleteA field, meadow, or other such piece of land.
  2. dialectalLow-lying land, usually marshy.

wong2

verbwong (third-person singular simple present wongs, present participle wonging, simple past and past participle wonged)

present singular third person wongs · participle present wonging · participle past wonged · past wonged

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

wong3

nounwong (plural wongs)

plural 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

nounwong (plural wongs)

plural wongs

  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.

    2013, The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel, John Nichols, page 243
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    "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?

    1957, Guy Bolton, Child of Fortune: A Play in Three Acts. Adoped from "Wings of the Dove", Norman Spinrad, page 177

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proper nounWong (plural Wongs)

plural 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?

    2021 March 31, Melissa Chen, “Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022
    1 more example

    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.

    2025 May 25, Amy Gunia, “This robotic arm is creating traditional Chinese ink paintings”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2025

Origin

wong · noun

  1. Proto-Germanic*wangaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*wang
  3. Old Englishwang
  4. Middle Englishwong
  5. Englishwong

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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wong · verb

From the pen name Stanford Wong.

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Wong · proper noun

From Cantonese, from Chinese: * 王 (wong⁴, “king”). Doublet of Vuong and Wang. * 黃/黄 (wong⁴, “yellow”). Doublet of Huynh and Huang. * 汪 (wong¹).

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Cite this entry
APA

wong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wong

MLA

“wong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wong. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wong,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wong.

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