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What is the difference between sandal and thong?

sandal | thong |

Thong is a hyponym of sandal.

Sandal is a see also of thong.


As nouns the difference between sandal and thong

is that sandal is a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot while thong is a strip of leather.

sandal

English

(wikipedia sandal)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sandale, from (etyl) sandalium, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
  • sandalwood
  • * Tennyson
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal , amber, ancient rosaries
    Hyponyms
    * flip-flop, jandal, thong

    Etymology 2

    From ; see it for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)sandalwood
  • * Tennyson
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal , amber, ancient rosaries

    thong

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of leather.
  • (usually, in the plural, Australia, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
  • * 1964 , The Beach Boys, All Summer Long
    • T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
  • * 2006 , Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour , Thomson, page 108,
    • Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs , shorts and T-shirts.
  • * 2008 , Steve Parish, Eccentric Australia , page 104,
    • Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can?t put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
  • * 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney , Lonely Planet, page 126,
    • You shouldn?t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you?ve splashed $5000 on daddy?s credit card.
  • (UK, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
    • No! I won't buy you a thong . You're too young for that.

    Synonyms

    * (an item of footwear) flip-flop, jandal (New Zealand) * (a undergarment or swimwear) G-string, butt floss

    See also

    * sandal