name
Meaning 1
A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
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Standard Lemma guide
wong
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /wɒŋ/
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UK: /wɔːŋ/
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US: /wɔŋ/
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US: /wɑŋ/
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rhymes with -ɒŋ
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General-American: /wɔŋ/
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cot-caught-merger: /wɑŋ/
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CMU ARPABET: W AO1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A field or other piece of land.
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Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 3
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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noun
Meaning 4
The penis.
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Usage: slang
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verb
Meaning 5
To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gambling, games
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History
Etymology
From Cantonese, from Chinese: * 王 (wong4, “king”). Doublet of Vuong and Wang. * 黃/黄 (wong4, “yellow”). Doublet of Huynh and Huang. * 汪 (wong1).
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.
From the pen name Stanford Wong.