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Definition: Gong |
GongNoun1. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick. 2. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer. Verb1. Sound a gong. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To hear the sound of a gong while dreaming, denotes false alarm of illness, or loss will vex you excessively. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | Metal plate usually struck with a heavy stick tipped with a skin or feld wad. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun, exclamation. Source: From "The Gong Show". Definition: The employees are constantly listening to their own station and when they believe a DJ has said something stupid they will yell "Gong!" as if to imply that his show should be over. Context: Used by anyone but mostly between friends to make sure that no one is offended. Social Source: KRVM Radio Station Employees. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Gong is any one of a wide variety of metal percussion instruments originating in China. Gongs are broadly of two types. Suspended gongs are more or less flat, circular disks of metal suspended vertically by means of a chord passed through holes near to the top rim. Bowl gongs are bowl-shaped, and rest on cushions. Gongs are made mainly from bronze or brass but there are many other alloys in use.
Types of gong
Suspended gongs are played with beaters. In general, the larger the gong, the larger and softer the beater. Large gongs may be 'primed' by lightly hitting them before the main stroke, greatly enhancing the sound. Keeping this priming stroke inaudible calls for a great deal of skill. The smallest suspended gongs are played with bamboo sticks, or even western-style drumsticks.
Bowl gongs may be played in many different ways, not all of them strictly percussion. The rim may be rubbed with the finger, for example, or the gong may be struck with a beater. Bowl gongs are used in temple worship, especially in Buddhism.
Traditional suspended gongs
Chau gongs
A 10" Chau GongBy far the most familiar to most Westerners is the chau gong or bullseye gong. Large chau gongs, called tam-tams (not to be confused with tom-tom drums), have become part of the symphony orchestra. Sometimes a chau gong is referred to as a Chinese gong, but in fact it is only one of many types of suspended gongs that are associated with China.
The chau gong is made of copper-based alloy, bronze or brass. It is almost flat except for the rim, which is turned up to make a shallow cylinder. On a 10" gong, for example, the rim extends about an half an inch perpendicular to the gong surface. The main surface is slightly concave when viewed from the direction to which the rim is turned. The centre spot and the rim of a chau gong are left coated on both sides with the black copper oxide that forms during the manufacture of the gong, the rest of the gong is polished to remove this coating. Chau gongs range in size from 7" to 80" in diameter.
Karlheinz Stockhausen used a 60" tam-tam in his Mikrophonie #1.
Traditionally, chau gongs were used to clear the way for important officials and processions, much like a police siren today. Sometimes the number of strokes on the gong was used to indicate the seniority of the official. In this way, two officials meeting unexpectedly on the road would know before the meeting which of them should bow down before the other.
Nipple gongs
Nipple gongs have a raised boss or nipple in the centre, often made of a different metal to the rest of the gong. They have a clear resonant tone with less shimmer than other gongs, and two distinct sounds depending on whether they are struck on the boss or next to it.
Nipple gongs range from in size from 6" to 14" or larger. Sets of smaller, tuned nipple gongs can be used to play a tune.
A Bau gong is a type of nipple gong used in Chinese temples for worship.
Opera gongs
An essential part of the orchestra for Chinese opera is a pair of gongs, the larger with a descending tone, the smaller with a rising tone. The larger gong is used to announce the entrance of major players, of men, and to identify points of drama and consequence. The smaller gong is used to announce the entry of lesser players, of women, and to identify points of humour.
Opera gongs range in size from 7" to 12", with the larger of a pair one or two inches larger than the smaller.
Pasi gongs
A Pasi gong is a medium-size gong 12" to 15" in size, with a crashing sound. It is used traditionally to announce the start of a performance, play or magic. Construction varies, some having nipples and some not, so this type is more named for its function than for its structure or even its sound.
Pasi gongs without nipples have found favour with adventurous middle-of-the-road kit drummers.
Tiger gong
A tiger gong is a slightly descending or less commonly ascending gong, larger than an opera gong and with a less pronounced pitch shift. Most commonly 15" but available down to 8".
Shueng Kwong
A Sheng Kwong gong is a medium to large gong with a sharp stacatto sound.
Wind gong
Wind gongs are flat and heavy, with a high pitched, heavy tuned overtone and long sustain. Played with a nylon tip drumstick they sound a bit like the coil chimes in a mantle clock. Some have holes in the centre, but they are mounted like all suspended gongs by other holes near the rim. They are lathed both sides and are medium to large in size, typically 15" to 22" but sizes from 7" to 40" are available.
Wind gongs are the type most commonly used by heavy rock drummers. Traditionally, a wind gong is played with a large soft mallet, which gives a completely different sound to a drumstick.
Modern orchestral gongs
As well as the tam-tam, there are a number of new gong types that were created during the 20th century specifically for orchestral use.
Planet gongs
A series of 14 tuned gongs by Paiste, ranging in size from 24" to 38".
Sound Creation gongs
A series of 13 theme gongs by Paiste, ranging in size from 11" to 60".
Gongs - General
The article below from a 1911 encyclopedia has been considerably updated but needs more and perhaps eventual merging with the above materialA gong (鑼 pinyin luo2; Malay language or Javanese language: gong-gong or tam-tam) is a percussion sonorous or musical instrument of Chinese origin and manufacture, made in the form of a broad thin disk with a deep rim, that has spread to Southeast Asia, a flat bell if you like.
Gongs vary in diameter from about 20 to 40 in., and they are made of bronze containing a maximum of 22 parts of tin to 78 of copper; but in many cases the proportion of tin is considerably less. Such an alloy, when cast and allowed to cool slowly, is excessively brittle, but it can be tempered and annealed in a peculiar manner. If suddenly cooled from a cherry-red heat, the alloy becomes so soft that it can be hammered and worked on the lathe, and afterwards it may be hardened by re-heating and cooling it slowly. In these properties it will be observed, the alloy behaves in a manner exactly opposite to steel, and the Chinese avail themselves of the known peculiarities for preparing the thin sheets of which gongs are made. They cool their castings of bronze in water, and after hammering out the alloy in the soft state, harden the finished gongs by heating them to a cherry-red and allowing them to cool slowly. These properties of the alloy long remained a secret, said to have been first discovered in Europe by Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet at the beginning of the 19th century. Riche and Champion are said to have succeeded in producing tam-tams having all the qualities and timbre of the Chinese instruments. The composition of the alloy of bronze used for making gongs is stated to be as follows: Copper, 76.52; Tin, 22.43; Lead, 0.26; Zinc, 0.23; Iron, 0.81. The gong is beaten with a round, hard, leather-covered pad, fitted on a short stick or handle. It emits a peculiarly sonorous sound, its complex vibrations bursting into a wave-like succession of toness, sometimes shrill, sometimes deep. In China and Japan it is used in religious ceremonies, state processions, marriages and other festivals; and it is said that the Chinese can modify its tone variously by particular ways of striking the disk. Gongs may have been used on towers in place of place.
The gong has been effectively used in the orchestra to intensify the impression of fear and horror in melodramatic scenes. The tam-tam was first introduced into a western orchestra by François-Joseph Gossec in the funeral march composed at the death of Mirabeau in 1791. Gaspard Spontini used it in La Vestale (1807), in the finale of act II., an impressive scene in which the high pontiff pronounces the anathema on the faithless vestal. It was also used in the funeral music played when the remains of Napoleon were brought back to France in 1840. Meyerbeer made use of the instrument in the scene of the resurrection of the three nuns in Robert le diable. Four tam-tams are now used at Bayreuth in Parsifal to reinforce the bell instruments, although there is no indication given in the score. The tap.i-tam has been treated from its ethnographical side by Franz Heger.
Gongs have been used in upper class households as waking devices.
A man hitting a gong twice starts all Rank films.
Gong (公 Pinyin: gong1) was the highest title of Chinese nobles during Zhou Dynasty and the second highest title, ranked below wang, from Han Dynasty onwards. Gong is usually translated as Duke.
"The Gong" is a colloquial name for Wollongong. For information about the 1970s rock band Gong see Gong (band)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gong."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gong are a progressive rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock.They were formed in 1967, after Allen - then a member of Soft Machine - was denied entry to the United Kingdom due to a visa complication. Allen remained in France where he and a London-born Sorbonne professor, Gilli Smyth, established the first incarnation of Gong. This band fragmented during the 1968 student revolution, with Allen and Smyth forced to flee France for Deya in Majorca.
They found a saxophonist, Didier Malherbe living in a cave in Deya, before film director Jerome La Perrousaz invited the band back to France to record the soundtracks to his movies.
They were subsequently approached by the newly formed independent label BYG and signed up for two albums (Magick Brother, Mystic Sister and Bananamoon).
By 1971, a regular line-up had established itself, and Gong released their Camembert Electrique album. The UK release, put out by Virgin Records subsidiary Caroline Records in 1974, was priced at 49p, ensuring that sufficient numbers were sold for the album to chart (had it not been barred from the charts for being so cheap).
Gong played at the first Glastonbury Festival and were subsequently one of the first acts to sign to Virgin Records, getting first pick of the studio-time ahead of Mike Oldfield.
Between 1973 and 1974, Gong, now augmented by guitarist Steve Hillage, released their Radio Gnome Trilogy - three records that expounded upon the (previously only hinted at) Gong mythology.
At a gig in Cheltenham, in 1975, Allen refused to go on stage, claiming that a "wall of force" was preventing him. He left the band, as did Smyth, who wanted to spend more time with her two children.
Gong continued, under the control of drummer Pierre Moerlen and without their two principle members, because of contractual obligations. They morphed into the jazz-rock outifit - Pierre Moerlen's Gong.
The Gong mythology however, continued from the late seventies up until the nineties, in Allen's solo work, and with bands such as Euterpe and Planet Gong (also known as Here And Now), while Smyth formed a separate band: Mother Gong.
The various bands and incarnations are collectively dubbed the "Gong Global Family".
In 1992, Allen and Malherbe reformed Gong to release an album called Shapeshifter, subsequently dubbed Radio Gnone pt4. In 2000, a 5th installment: Zero to Infinity was released, featuring Smyth, and classic line-up bassist Mike Howlett.
Brief Discography:
- 1970 - Magick Brother, Mystic Sister
- 1971 - Bananamoon (Daevid Allen)
- 1971 - Glastonbury Fayre (Gong contribute one side to this live triple album, including a piece that is is interupted by "the generator packing up".)
- 1971 - Camembert Electrique
- 1971 - Continental Circus
- 1971 - Obsolete (Dashiell Hedeyat & Gong)
- 1973 - Flying Teapot
- 1973 - Angel's Egg
- 1973- Greasy Truckers: Live At Dingwall's Dance Hall (Gong contribute one side to this double album along with Henry Cow, Camel and the Global Village Trucking Company. Nb, the Gong tracks are not in fact 'live' performances)
- 1974 - You
- 1976 - Shamal
- 1977 - Gazeuse! aka Expresso
- 1977- Gong est Mort- Viva la Gong! (French live album)
- 1977- Gong Live Etc (UK live album)
- 1978 - Expresso II
...
- 1989 - Gong Maison (Gong Maison)
- 1992 - Shapeshifter
- 2000 - Zero to Infinity
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gong (band)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GONG | English | Global Oscillation Network Group | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GongSynonyms: bell (n), chime (n), tam-tam (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gong |
| Specialty definitions using "gong": PERCUSSION-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gong" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (gong), Czech (bell, gong), Faeroese (corridor, hallway, passage), French (gong), Frisian (hallway), German (gong), Hungarian (gong), Indonesian (gong), Italian (gong), Manx (gong), Romanian (gong), Serbo-Croatian (gong), Spanish (gong), Turkish (gong, time signal). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong! (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) | |
Lyrics | Ain't nobody gonna bow no more when you sound your gong. (Little Miss Can't Be Wrong; performing artist: Spin Doctors) Bang a gong (Get It On; performing artist: T Rex) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tang shan gong fu (1973) Gong with the Pink (1971) Shen gong (1968) Gong hua xia dao (1967) Tie shan gong zhu (1966) | |
Song Titles | Get It On ( Bang A Gong) (performing artist: The Neanderthal Spongecake) Bang A Gong (performing artist: T-Rex) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S.S. Oregon, waiting for the gong. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ringing the gong for dinner at the free barbecue, Labor Day, Ridgway, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The chef at the Rimrock Camp in the central Oregon land development project gets ready to go into action on the dinner gong. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | After a hard day's work these Resettlement Administration workers welcome the sound of the dinner gong. Rimrock Camp, Madras, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sagamore Hill, residence of Theodore Roosevelt. Dinner gong, made of elephant tusks. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Canadian scenes. Horydczak at the gong. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Chinese gong being struck once. | | Gong sounding. |
| A single gamelan gong. | | Gong being played. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In Cumming v. County Board of Education, and Gong Lum v. Rice, the validity of the doctrine itself was not challenged. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Examples include Qi gong, Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Macau | Local Falun Gong supporters generally are allowed to exercise and demonstrate without interference. (references) |
Macau | The incident ended peacefully when a plainclothes police officer told the Falun Gong adherents to leave. (references) | |
Hong Kong | In November police seized Falun Gong protesters' placards and banners, again on the grounds of public obstruction. (references) | |
Economic History | China | In 1999, China banned the Falun Gong spiritual movement and has since implemented a crackdown on the movement. (references) |
China | Reliable reports indicate that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are in re-education through labor camps; hundreds are in prisons or psychiatric facilities. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | For example, in December 2000, four members of the Zhong Gong qigong group were charged by Nanjing authorities with "inciting subversion of the state's political power" and sentenced to between 2 and 41/2 years in prison. (references) |
Political Economy | China | Various sources reported that over 200 Falun Gong practitioners died in detention as a result of torture or mistreatment. (references) |
Hong Kong | Despite the ban on the Falun Gong in mainland China, the Falun Gong remained legally registered and generally free to continue its activities in Hong Kong. (references) | |
China | An unexpected, day-long sit-in by approximately 10,000 members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement outside the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in downtown Beijing in April 1999, offered a dramatic example of the sorts of challenges likely to confront the CCP as China continues to open and become more pluralistic. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gong" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.15% of the time. "Gong" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.15% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.2% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gong" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gong | Last name | 1,000 | 13,775 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "gong": Chan Mi gong ♦ external Qi Gong ♦ fog gong ♦ gong bell ♦ gong buoy ♦ Gong farmer ♦ Gong man ♦ Gong metal ♦ Gong Therapy ♦ Gong Yoga (Gong Shui) ♦ Human Resources Chi Gong ♦ Imperial Qi Gong ♦ internal Qi Gong ♦ Jing Gong ♦ Marrow Cleansing Chi Gong ♦ Quan Chi Chi Gong ♦ Quantum Leap Chi Gong therapy ♦ Spring Dragon Qi Gong. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gong": gong-strokes, Gong-yuh, gong-zuo. | |
Ending with "gong": dinner-gong. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
qi gong | 245 | gong lian | 10 |
gong | 223 | exercise free gong qi | 9 |
gong li | 206 | course free gong qi | 9 |
falun gong | 149 | paiste gong | 9 |
gong show | 116 | gong gui ping qiong zi | 9 |
bang a gong | 88 | gong jr | 9 |
chi gong | 78 | gong qi ying | 8 |
band bang gong | 37 | gong junior | 8 |
bang get gong it | 30 | bang gong lyrics | 8 |
band bang get gong it | 22 | falon gong | 7 |
tuff gong | 20 | gong paiste sound | 7 |
gong li nude | 18 | gong kulintang | 7 |
chinese gong | 16 | gong movie show | 7 |
qi gong exercise | 16 | guan gong | 7 |
bang bolan get gong it lyrics marc | 13 | gong hotel party pool | 6 |
gong sound | 13 | damian junior gong marley | 6 |
planet gong | 12 | bell and gong | 6 |
gong hee fot choy | 11 | fan gong page show | 6 |
gong qui | 11 | gong xiang | 6 |
gong nei | 10 | gong li picture | 6 |
el gong | 6 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gong, kimbal. (various references) | |
Arabic | ناقوس (bell, bell jar), جرس قرصي, جرس (bell, cowbell, timbre). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гонг, военен орден. (various references) | |
Chinese | 锣, 鑼 . (various references) | |
Czech | gong (bell), metál. (various references) | |
Danish | gongong. (various references) | |
Dutch | gong (chime). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناقوس (Bell, Ring), صدای زنگ دراوردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | gonggongi, malmirumpu. (various references) | |
French | gong. (various references) | |
German | gong. (various references) | |
Greek | κώδων (bell, inner lift), καμπάνα (bell), σημαντήρι, γκογκ (table gong), δισκοειδήσ (discoid). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקוש (clapper, drumstick, stick, striker), פעמון (bell), גונג. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gong, harangrugó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gong, titir (etc.), penabuh (etc), one who strike (a drum). (various references) | |
Italian | gong. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 銅鑼 , 鉦 (bell, chimes), ゴルフ場 (ace, circle, circlet, circlip, circuit, circuit breaker, circuit training, circular fluorescent lamp, circular skirt, circulation, circulator, circumscribe, circumscription, circus, club, Gauloise, golf course, golf links, gondola, goods or services without charge, grounder, saber, sabre, sabre-toothed tiger, sardine, sardonyx, search, searcher, searchlight, serge, sergeant, servant, serve, serve point, server, service, service area, service car, service girl, service room, service station, service yard, snap ring, sports club, support system, surcharge, surf cast, surf casting, surf rider, surf roller, surf ski, surf trolling, surfboard, surfer, surfing, surge, surveillance, survey, Surveyor, third, thirty). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どら, かね (bell, chime, chimes, metal, money), ゴング . (various references) | |
Korean | 징. (various references) | |
Manx | gong, bwoalley gong, bwoalley clag raauee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gongong. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onggay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gongo (tam-tam, tom-tom). (various references) | |
Romanian | gong. (various references) | |
Russian | гонг. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gong. (various references) | |
Spanish | gong. (various references) | |
Swedish | gonggong. (various references) | |
Thai | ฆ้อง. (various references) | |
Turkish | gong (time signal), nişan (affiance, badge, betrothal, brand, butt, decoration, device, engagement, ensign, espousal, Mark, medal, order, plume, sign, target), arabayı durdurmak, çan sesi (bells, dingdong, ding-dong, jingle, ring, ringing, ting, tintinnabulation, toll). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гонг (tom-tom), дзвінок (buzzer, ringer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mề đay, cái cồng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gong": gonged, gonging, gonglike, gongoristic, gongs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gong": dugong, legong. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gong": dugongs, legongs. (additional references) | |
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"Gong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fong, gcn, gegn, geng, genug, Geogg, geong, ghog, gign, giong, Glogg, gno, gnob, gnof, gnou, gogu, Golgo, go'n, gona, Gond, goni, gonig, gonj, gonk, gonn, gont, gonu, goog, goona, gorg, goug, grong, groung, gunga, gunge, gungy, gyon, iong, jong, Nghon, Ngong, Ngongo, nogg, ogn, ronng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gong" (pronounced gô"ng) |
| 2 | -ô" ng | along, belong, Dong, Hong, lifelong, long, pong, prolong, prong, sarong, song, strong, thong, throng, Tong, wrong, yearlong. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nogg. | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-n-o" | |
-1 letter: nog. | |
-2 letters: go, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-n-o" | |
+1 letter: going, gongs, noggs. | |
+2 letters: dugong, eggnog, gingko, ginkgo, gobang, goings, gonged, gorgon, goring, gringo, gundog, legong, nogged, noggin, ogling, waggon. | |
+3 letters: agelong, anagoge, anagogy, bogging, bonging, cogging, dodging, dogging, doggone, dugongs, eggnogs, engorge, fogging, forging, gaoling, gigaton, ginkgos, globing, gloving, glowing, glozing, goading, goaling, gobangs, gobbing, godding, godling, golfing, gonging, goofing, goosing, gorging, gorgons, gosling, gouging, gowning, gringos, groping, growing, gudgeon, gundogs, hangdog, hogging, ingoing, jogging, legongs, lodging, logging, longing, mogging, nogging, noggins, ongoing, ponging, roguing, rouging, snogged, synagog, togging, tonging, upgoing, voguing, waggons. | |
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