Thong vs Thonged - What's the difference?
thong | thonged |
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
* 2006 , Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour , Thomson,
* 2008 , Steve Parish, Eccentric Australia ,
* 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney , Lonely Planet,
(UK, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
Having a thong or thongs.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 28, author=Adam B. Ellick, title=Lacy Threads and Leather Straps Bind a Business, work=New York Times
, passage=It helps that the dozens of veiled and uneducated female laborers who assemble the handmade items — gag balls, lime-green corsets, thonged spanking skirts — have no idea what the items are used for. }}
As a noun thong
is a strip of leather.As an adjective thonged is
having a thong or thongs.thong
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Noun
(en noun)- T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
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- Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs , shorts and T-shirts.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 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 flossSee also
* sandalthonged
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Adjective
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