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Knell vs Dong - What's the difference?

knell | dong |

As verbs the difference between knell and dong

is that knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll while dong is to resound, reverberate, echo, boom.

As a noun knell

is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

knell

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
  • * , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
  • Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
  • to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
  • * 1750 , , Line 1
  • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

    Derived terms

    * death knell

    dong

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) ), from (etyl) ? (''*l?o? ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol:
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The penis; a dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.
  • Synonyms
    * (penis ): See also

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Onomatopoeia for the sound made by a bell with a low pitch.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a low-pitched sound from a bell
  • See also

    *ding dong ----