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fong

1. (Ireland, slang) a kick
   • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, Scribner-Simon & Schuster, New York: 1996, p 147.

     'Get away from my door or I'll come out and give every one o' ye a good fong in the hole of yeer arse.'

From Latin fungus, or possibly a calque of Spanish hongo.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfoŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfoŋk]
• Homophone: fonc

fong m (plural fongs)

1. fungus
2. mushroom

   Synonym: bolet

• fúngic

• “fong” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fongs”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fong” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fong” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Oceanic *boŋi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀŋi, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀŋi. Compare Pohnpeian pwohng, Marshallese boñ, Fijian pogi, Rotuman pogi and Hawaiian pō.

• IPA^(key): /foŋ/

fong

1. night

From Middle English thong, thwong, from Old English þwang, from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz.

• IPA^(key): /ɸɔːn/

fong

1. A thin strip of raw hide used by saddlers in sewing.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136