Thong vs Thons - What's the difference?
thong | thons |
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.
(neologism, archaic) Belonging to thon, their (singular).
* {{quote-journal, year = 1889
, month = November
, title = That Desired Impersonal Pronoun
, journal = The Writer
, first = C. Crozat
, last = Converse
, publisher = William H. Hills
, city = Boston
, volume = 3
, issue = 2
, page = 248
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QQQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA248
, passage = Every writer has "thons " verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon" who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result.
}}
* {{quote-journal, year = 1895
, month = July
, title = The New Pronoun
, journal = The Public-School Journal
, publisher = Public-School Publishing Co.
, city = Bloomington
, volume = 14
, issue = 11
, page = 613
, quotee = The Lynchburg Record
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3fkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA613
, passage = I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning.
}}
* {{quote-book, year = 1895
, title = Outlines of Psychology
, first = Henry Graham
, last = Williams
, publisher = C. W. Bardee
, location = Syracuse
, edition = 3rd
, page = 5
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
, passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
}}
As a noun thong
is pine (tree of the genus pinus ).As an adjective thons is
(neologism|archaic) belonging to thon, their (singular).thong
English
Noun
(en noun)- T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
page 108,
- Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs , shorts and T-shirts.
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.
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.
- No! I won't buy you a thong . You're too young for that.