Tong vs Mong - What's the difference?
tong | mong |
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
* 1998 , Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity , page 232:
(Australian slang) A mongrel dog.'>citation
* 1965 , Brian James, The Big Burn: Short Stories ,
(dated, offensive, pejorative, British, slang) A person with Down's syndrome.
(pejorative, British, slang) A stupid person.
(obsolete) a variant spelling of
As nouns the difference between tong and mong
is that tong is an instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands while mong is a mixture, a crowd.As a verb tong
is to use tongs.As a preposition mong is
a variant spelling of ’mong.tong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .Noun
(en noun)- these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs' in some lists: in order to make a '''tong''' one needs a '''tong''', and how could the first '''tong''' be made without a ' tong ?
See also
* tongsEtymology 2
From (etyl), .See also
* triad * yakuza ----mong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Derived terms
* mongcornEtymology 2
Contraction of (mongrel).Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- Some blue cattle-dogs and a small pack of mongs barked excitedly, and danced round, and wished they knew what to do in such an unheard-of situation; and no doubt dreamed for days after of what they had done to distinguish themselves.