gong
/ɡɔŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.45 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head."
- "This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes."
- "Weems picked up the hammer and hit the gong so hard that it spun right around on its hanger and fell off."
- "Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake!"
- "As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children."
- "The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: gong, 功
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɔŋ/
- British English: /ɡɒŋ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
gong ] (canonical)
gongs (plural)
gongs (present, singular)
gonging (participle, present)
gonged (participle, past)
gonged (past)
gang (alternative)
gonge (alternative)
goonge (alternative)
goung (alternative)
gounge (alternative)
gung (alternative)