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Definition: Thong |
ThongNoun1. Leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip. 2. A thin strip of leather; often used to lash things together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A thong can be several things:
- it can be a thin leather strap
- it can mean a type of sandal held to the foot by a thin strap
- it can be an item of thong underwear
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thong."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Although it was worn for decades by exotic dancers, the thong first gained popularity in South America, particularly in Brazil in the 1980s. It was originally a style of swimsuit made so that the back of the suit is so thin that it disappears into the buttocks.By the 1990s, the design had made its way to most of the Western World, and thong underwear became popular. As of 2003, thong underwear is one of the fastest selling styles available among women and is even gaining some popularity among men. One advantage attributed to the wearing of thong underwear is that no "visible panty line" can be seen even under a thin, light-colored, or skin-tight garment.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thong underwear."
Synonym: ThongSynonym: lash (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders. |
Scourge | Whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thong |
| English words defined with "thong": Gordian knot ♦ hunting crop ♦ Lanier, Lingel, Lorate ♦ pusher ♦ quirt ♦ riding crop ♦ tabi, tabis ♦ zori. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thong": Doncaster ♦ HARNESS MAKER ♦ Reef suit ♦ slippers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thong": lorica. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, I'm getting heat from the guy in the hot pink thong. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Mom, Aimee wears a thong every single day and right now she is wearing a thong of mine (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) I spent $150 to rent this costume. And do you have any idea how it feels to walk around all day with a thong up your ass (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg) It's a thong. (8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter; writing credit: Stig Blyme; Lars Ellegaard) | |
Lyrics | Let me see that thong (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO) That thong th thong thong thong (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO) Better sport that thong proud (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx) | |
Song Titles | Thong Song (performing artist: Sisqo) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Business | For the next five to six years, the WMA has targeted developing plans for wastewater treatment in Bang Bua Thong District of Nonthaburi province and Krathum Baen District of Samut Sakhon province. (references) | |
Following the WMA’s mandate to set up action plans, survey, design, and construct central waste water treatment and collection facilities, WMA’s priorities for the next two to three years include establishing the master plans for wastewater treatment for Chachoengsao province on Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard, a area of heavy industrialization and for Ang Thong province. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Laos | Two prisoners from the pre-1975 regime, Colonel Sing Chanthakoumane and Major Pang Thong Chokbengvoun, are serving life sentences after trials that did not appear to be conducted according to international standards. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | But even I realize we have to pull the thong of indifference out of our ass and acknowledge that we share this planet with others. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Thong" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Thong" is used about 20 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) | 90% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "thong" 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 |
| Thong | Last name | 400 | 21,844 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "thong": Thong seal. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "thong": carrying-thong, whip-thong. | |
| 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 |
thong | 42,626 | teen in thong | 481 |
thong bikini | 5,899 | picture of woman in thong | 448 |
thong picture | 3,398 | skimpy thong | 420 |
girl in thong | 2,474 | hot thong | 417 |
thong gallery | 1,708 | thong underwear | 375 |
rate thong | 1,645 | man in thong | 363 |
thong for man | 1,375 | thong swimsuit | 358 |
teen thong | 1,272 | thong ass | 355 |
woman in thong | 1,173 | black girl in thong | 336 |
thong bunz | 1,170 | buffalo thong | 335 |
thong girl | 1,124 | public thong | 332 |
sexy thong | 1,007 | free thong gallery | 328 |
daily thong | 837 | thong of the day | 325 |
thong model | 674 | exposed thong | 319 |
thong babe | 607 | babe in thong | 317 |
the thong song | 585 | beach thong | 296 |
thong pantie | 549 | thong butt | 294 |
free thong pic | 544 | thong swim wear | 291 |
thong contest | 535 | only thong | 282 |
micro thong | 484 | thong visible | 282 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "thong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrip (band, bandeau, belt, cincture, cleat, girdle, leash, riband, ribbon, slat, spline, strap, streak, strip, tape, trace, waist belt), lak (halter, lasso, loop, mesh, necklace, noose, slipknot, tag, trap). (various references) | |
Arabic | حزام جلدي رفيع, سير جلدي (whang), سير السوط, سير (course, file, foot, going, impel, march, motion, pan, pass, procession, progress, propel, running, walk), رسن يقاد به الحصان (tether). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам ремък на, ремък (band, belt, brace, cinch, lanyard, strap), камшик (horsewhip, knout, lash, scourge, whip), каиш (strap, waist belt), бия с камшик (cat, cowhide, flay, flog, larrup, lash, quirt, scourge). (various references) | |
Chinese | 皮带 (strap), " (crowd, crowded, to hold, to support). (various references) | |
Czech | kožené šnìrovadlo, řemen (band, belt, strap), žíla bièe. (various references) | |
Farsi | قیش (Leather), تسمه (Bail, Belt, Halter, Hoop, Lash, Ribbon, Strop), شلاق زدن (Baste, Beat, Belabor, Belt, Cat, Horse, Horsewhip, Leather, Wallop, Welt, Whip, Whiplash), باتسمه بستن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ruoskansiima (lash), hihna (band, belt, sling, strap). (various references) | |
French | longe, lanieres des baches (sheet thongs), lanière, aviron. (various references) | |
German | Riemen (band, belt, leather shoelace, oar, prick, shoulder strap, sling, strap, straps, thongs). (various references) | |
Greek | λωρίο (lash), λουρί (belt, collar, lashing, lead, leash). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שרוך (lace, string, tie), ערק". (various references) | |
Hungarian | szíj (belt, chafing-mat, strap). (various references) | |
Italian | laccio (lace, lasso, loop, noose, snare, string, tie, tourniquet, trap), cinghia di cuoio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ' (cord, strap), 紐革 (strap). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | お (at, cord, drawing, figure, illustration, in, on, picture, ridge, strap, tail), ひもかわ (strap). (various references) | |
Manx | yeeal (lace, lash, lead, leash), synnin, point (lace, leather-lace). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ongthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tira de couro (leather strap, strap), correia (belt, laniard, lanyard, leash, strap, whang). (various references) | |
Romanian | curea (belt, girdle, lanyard, leash, leather, sling, strap), chingã (girth, strap). (various references) | |
Russian | ремень (belt, leather, sling, strap). (various references) | |
Scottish | barr-iall (shoe latchet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzan remen. (various references) | |
Spanish | correa (band, belt, lead, leash, purlin, strap, trace). (various references) | |
Swedish | pisksnärt (whipcord, whiplash), läderrem (leather). (various references) | |
Thai | สายหนัง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sırımla bağlamak, sırım takmak, sırım (whipcord), kırbaçlamak (colt, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, swish, welt, whip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ремінь (band, belt, strap, strop), батіг (eel, lash, scourge, whip). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dây da roi da. (various references) | |
Welsh | carrai (lace). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flagella, flagelli, flagellis, flagello, flagellum, habenae, habenas, lora, loris, loro, lorum, nervi, nervicis, nervo, nervos, nervum, nervus. (various references) |
| Middle Low German | 1100-1500 | strippe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thong": thonged, thongs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "thong": diphthong, monophthong, triphthong. (additional references) | |
Words containing "thong": diphthongal, diphthongization, diphthongizations, diphthongize, diphthongized, diphthongizes, diphthongizing, diphthongs, monophthongal, monophthongs, triphthongal, triphthongs. (additional references) | |
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"Thong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Choong, Htoon, ithongo, Mhlongo, Nhuong, Othon, phong, thang, theeng, theon, Thingol, thiog, Thiounn, thog, thone, thongh, thonk, thonne, thont, thony, thoug, thung, thunt, thuong, thynge, Tiong, Toong, trong, Tshoungi, tsong, Zhong. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thong" (pronounced thô"ng) |
| 2 | -ô" ng | along, belong, Dong, gong, Hong, lifelong, long, pong, prolong, prong, sarong, song, strong, throng, Tong, wrong, yearlong. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: hong, tong. | |
-2 letters: got, hog, hon, hot, nog, noh, not, nth, tho, tog, ton. | |
-3 letters: go, ho, no, oh, on, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: hognut, nought, thongs, throng. | |
+2 letters: gunshot, hangout, hognuts, hooting, hosting, hotting, nothing, noughts, shotgun, tholing, thonged, thouing, throngs, tonight, toughen. | |
+3 letters: botching, boughten, clothing, doughnut, foughten, frothing, ghosting, gnathion, gunshots, hangouts, heptagon, histogen, hogtying, hoisting, hotching, infought, ingrowth, lithoing, loathing, mouthing, northing, notching, nothings, oughting, pathogen, photoing, shooting, shorting, shotguns, shotting, shouting, soothing, southing, theogony, thorning, thronged, throning, throwing, tonights, toothing, torching, touching, toughens, toughing, trothing, unbought, unfought, unsought, worthing. | |
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