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ˈgong-ˌgong ? Obs.
Also 8 gun(g)-gun(g.
[Partly a reduplication of Malay gong, gung (see gong n.2); partly an independent echoic formation: cf. gumgum.
The reduplicated form may have come from some Malayan dialect; cf. gonggong barking of dogs, ginggong a ‘Jew's harp’ or similar toy. Cf. G. gonggong, gonggon, Du., Sw. gonggong, Da. gongon, a gong.]
A name given to various musical instruments of percussion in use among primitive peoples.
1771J. R. Forster P. Osbeck's Trav. I. 186 Gungung is the Chinese name of an instrument which has the greatest resemblance to a brass bason. 1772Ann. Reg. 5/2 Besides these they have little drums, great and small kettle drums, gunguns or round brass basons like frying pans, flutes [etc.]. 1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 727 But hark! the gong-gong tolls the knell of day. 1817T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee i. vii. (1819) 136 The gong-gongs and drums were beat all around us. |