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say it: thawng
thong is a noun meaning "leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip". It is pronounced /ˈθɔŋ/ — thawng. It carries 5 recorded senses.
leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
underpants resembling a G-string; worn by women especially under very tight pants
“she wore thongs in her quest for the callipygian ideal”
a thin strip of leather; often used to lash things together
minimal clothing worn by stripteasers; a narrow strip of fabric that covers the pubic area, passes between the thighs, and is supported by a waistband
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thong come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.