thongn.

Brit.

/θɒŋ/, U.S.

/θɔŋ/,

/θɑŋ/

Forms: α. Old English ðwong, ðuong, ðwangc, þwæng, ðuuencg, Old English–Middle English þwang; Middle English thuang, Middle English (Sc. and north.–1800s) thwang (Middle English thwange, twange, 1500s thwangue), Middle English–1600s Sc. thwayng. β. Middle English þwong, þuong(e, Middle English thwong(e (dial. twonge). γ. Middle English þong, Middle English– thong, (Middle English þonge, thongh, 1500s–1600s thonge, 1500s thongue). δ. Middle English thownge, thowyng; dial.1700s–1800s thung, thunk, thonk.

Etymology: Old English þwang , þwǫng strong masculine (also feminine); also, Old Northumbrian plural ðuuencgu , N. Anglian þwænga , agreeing with Old Norse þvengr ( < þvaŋgi^z ); all from ablaut stem *þwing- , *þwang- , *þwung- , to restrain < Indo-European root *twenk : compare German zwingen : see twing n., twinge v.¹, and compare the dialect form whang n.¹

a. A narrow strip of hide or leather, for use as a lace, cord, band, strap, or the like.In early use, esp. the lace or ‘latchet’ of a shoe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > thong, lace, or cord > leather

thongc950

α.

c950 Lindisf. G. John i. 27 Ic ne am wyrðe þætte ic undoe his ðuong scoes [Rushw. ðwong giscoes, Ags. Gosp. sceoþwang].

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) i. 7 His sceona þwanga [Lindisf. ðuongas scóe his, Rushw. þwongas gescoas his].

c1000 Ælfric Genesis (Gr.) xiv. 23 Þæt ic ne underfo furðon anne þwang of eallum þisum þingum.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 379/32 Corrigie, olþwongas.

a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 332/12 Corrigia, ðwangc.

c1275 Laȝamon Brut 22295 Somme makede þwanges.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12823 To lese þe thuanges of his sco.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxviii. 4599 A royne lanȝhare..And schare a thwayng at all laysere.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xi. 5 Dartis..Quhilk thai with lyamis and thwangis lang owt threw.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biv/1 A Thwangue, lorum.

1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 428 A Thwang for a shoe, the latchet.

β. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 137 Ich nam noht ne for ðen wurðe þat ich un-cnutte his sho þuong.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11126 Sum makde þwonges [c1300 Otho þwanges].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2492 As moche place as mid a þuong ich may aboute tille.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 369 Þey usede hiȝe schone unto þe kne, i-slitte to fore, and i-laced wiþ þwonges.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 194 Syþen þrawen wyth a þwong, a þwarle-knot alofte.1485 Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 22 Henge a lytel keye by a thwonge.γ. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7097 Þa al islit wes þe þong he wes wunder ane long.a1375 William of Palerne (1867) l. 1720 Sche..festened hire in þat fel wiþ ful gode þonges.1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. lvi. 40 Engyst prayd hym..of as moche place as he myght compasse with a thong of a skynne.1565 A. Golding tr. Cæsar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 138 He aduised him to tie the letter to the thong of a Iaueling, & so to throw it into his camp.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oi^v/1 A Thongue, lorum.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. (1637) 339 A beasts hide cut into thongs.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxix, in Poems (1878) IV. 145 Another girds his Frock, with a sure Thonge [rhyme strong].1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 188 The Noose of a Leather Thong.1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xvii. 246 Subsisting on the bark of trees or the thongs of raw hide.δ. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 656/1 Hec corigia, thowyng.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 492/1 Thownge, or lanere.a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Thunk, Lancashire pronunciation of Thong.1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. at Thung ‘I give the cobbler a penny fur two thunks’.1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Thonk, a thong, a bootlace; also Thunk.

†b. A phylactery. Only Old English. rare.

ΚΠ

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 5 Hia gebrædas forðon ðuuencgu hiora.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 5 Þwænga.

c. Such a strip used as an instrument of flagellation; also as the lash of a whip; hence spec. a whip-lash of plaited hide.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge

swepea700

scourgea1225

whipc1325

swaipa1400

flagellec1430

flail?a1475

foueta1492

scorpion1541

lash1577

sot1588

thong1592

chawbuck1698

knout1716

taw1787

flagellum1807

1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. iii A boy was beaten on the taile with a leathern thong.

1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 36 The trembling Steed..Nor hears the Rein, nor heeds the sounding Thong.

1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 360 Man's coltish disposition asks the thong.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ii. vi. 297 A gentleman..left the whip to have a new thong put to it.

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 195 Horace prayed for a settled standard of punishment, lest any one should be subjected to the horrible thong, who is only deserving of a slight whipping.

d. transf. A similar strip of other material, as a tough pliant plant-stem, etc.; spec. a root or root-cutting of horse-radish or sea-kale.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > thong, lace, or cord

lainera1387

lashc1440

lanyard1483

lingel1538

whangc1540

lunge1607

lore1621

ament1623

thong1665

lad1847

lorum1903

the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > rootlet, fibre, or subsidiary root

string1398

by-root1578

fillet1601

taw1615

tapon1641

fibre1656

fang1664

fibril1664

rootlinga1706

lateral root1724

rootlet1783

radicle1793

radicel1819

viver1877

branch-root1884

sprangle1896

thong1927

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 6 Bound together with thongs of Brambles.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 696 Take a thong of this substance [india-rubber].

1875 T. W. Higginson Young Folks' Hist. U.S. iii. 17 The edges were sewed with thongs cut from the roots of the cedar.

1927 Smallholder 26 Mar. 105 Plant [horseradish] each year..fresh pieces..made from the side roots or thongs.

1927 Smallholder 26 Mar. 105 It is now time to plant out thongs of seakale.

1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 1916/2 Cuttings [of seakale], or thongs as they are frequently called, are clean straight pieces of the side roots.

1961 Amateur Gardening 21 Oct. 9/3 The thick roots [of seakale] or ‘thongs’..are not needed for forcing.

e. fig.; esp. in phrase to cut a large thong (or large thongs) of another man's leather, to cut long thongs of other men's hides, to be lavish with that which is another's.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander or be prodigal [verb (intransitive)] > that which is another's

to cut a large thong (or large thongs) of another man's leatherc1380

to cut long thongs of other men's hides1866

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > that which

fetterOE

shackle?c1225

cagec1300

chainc1374

to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380

corda1382

gablea1555

obligation1582

hamper1613

tethera1628

girdlea1630

confiner1654

trammela1657

cramp1719

swathe1864

tie1868

lockstep1963

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > that which

fetterOE

shackle?c1225

cagec1300

chainc1374

to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380

corda1382

gablea1555

obligation1582

manacle1587

hamper1613

tethera1628

girdlea1630

confiner1654

trammela1657

cramp1719

swathe1864

tie1868

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 76 Þis ordre is a þuonge to bynde mennis willes togidere.

a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 70 It is worthy he smerte and be wo, Þat of his owen skyn wole kerue a thong.

1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 316 Men cut large thongys here of othere mens lethere.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 26 What chance that I..Should speak to purpose, or with better hope Crack the satiric thong?

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 51 As long as I could cut long thongs out of other men's hides.

1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 149 The silken tie became a thong Wherewith she pinioned him in bondage strong.

f. Austral. and U.S. = flip-flop n. 6. Cf. thong sandal n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of

alpargata1613

opanka1778

pampootie1846

kaparrang1867

huarache1887

chappal1893

bakya1916

platform sandal1940

jandal1950

flip-flop1958

thonged sandal1958

thong sandal1965

toe-thong sandal1966

thong1967

slip-slop1971

1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 87 Her feet, in scuffed leather thongs, were none too clean.

1976 New Yorker 17 May 35/2 Please, no clogs, Earth Shoes, or thongs.

1981 H. Engel Ransom Game (1982) xxx. 197 She..handed me a pair of Japanese thongs. I slipped them on and felt the skin between my first two toes protest.

Compounds

C1. General attrib.

thong-point n.

ΚΠ

1897 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 593/2 A leather sporran tagged with thong points tied in knots.

thong-wearer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] > member of

Jacobina1325

preacher?c1335

Black Friar1417

Dominicc1540

Jacobitea1563

preaching friar1598

Dominicana1632

cherubic1826

cherubic friar1826

thong-wearer1901

1901 Athenæum 2 Nov. 589/1 It is the cord-wearer [Franciscan] rather than the thong-wearer [Dominican] who is the hero of the more scandalous anecdotes.

thong-hurled adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [adjective] > discharged from sling or thong

thong-hurled1685

slung1893

1685 C. Cotton tr. Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. 23 The bear, made fiercer by the wound from the Lybian's thong-hurled dart.

C2.

thong-drill n. a drill rotated by means of a thong or cord wound round its stem.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > drill worked by string or cord

bow-drill1865

cord-drill1865

pump drill1865

thong-drill1865

fiddle-drill1888

Yankee fiddle1892

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 242 The thong-drill with the mouthpiece.

thong-man n. a man who wields the thong or lash; in 1876, a critic.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips

whipper1552

jerker1565

scourger1580

lasher1611

firkera1626

whipster1670

yarker1677

bone-polisher1803

horsewhipper1808

flagellator1824

thong-man1876

sjambokker1953

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xv. 278 Self-appointed thongmen, who walk up and down our ranks flapping their leathern straps.

thong sandal n. Austral. and U.S. = sense f above.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of

alpargata1613

opanka1778

pampootie1846

kaparrang1867

huarache1887

chappal1893

bakya1916

platform sandal1940

jandal1950

flip-flop1958

thonged sandal1958

thong sandal1965

toe-thong sandal1966

thong1967

slip-slop1971

1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1057/2 Supporting activities, like teaching and editing and selling thong-sandals.

1972 J. Aiken Butterfly Picnic iii. 59 He wore a magenta tussore shirt..burnt-orange shorts, and local-made thong sandals.

thong-seal n. a name sometimes given to the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, the hide of which is cut into a continuous strip for use as a line.

thong weed n. = sea-thong n. at sea n. Compounds 6e.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds

sea-thong1633

sea-lace1666

sea-points1666

fucus1714

sea-catgut1833

sea-whipcord1833

sea-whiplash1833

thread-tangle1844

whipcord1850

whiplash1850

sea-whip1858

thong weed1958

1958 Listener 31 July 179/2 With I-Spy at the Seaside I shall look for..some thong weed.

1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 4/2 Himanthalia elongata (‘Thong Weed’) is to be found attached to rock surfaces.

Derivatives

thongy adj. /ˈθɒŋɪ/ dial. see quots.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] > specifically of liquids > forming or containing thread-like parts

roping1440

ropy1467

roped?1489

long1569

stringy1694

thready1733

thongy1847

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Thongy, ropy, viscid. Somerset.

1885 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 17 112 Cider is often said 'to thongy', or ‘to be thongy’, when it gets into the peculiar state known as ‘reamed’ or ‘ropy’.

Draft additions 1993

A skimpy garment (similar to a G-string) consisting of a cache-sexe and a narrow elasticated strip extending between the legs and buttocks to meet a waistband, and worn esp. as an item of swimwear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > clothing for loins or genital area > other

tanga1912

cache-sexe1926

monokini1964

thong1975

T-back1981

1975 Times 22 Apr. 9/1 Rudi Gernreich['s]..new bathing suit, also available as an item of lingerie..is called the Thong.

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Aug. 11/5 John Fogel has been fined..for wearing a ‘thong’ on the beach and thus exposing his buttocks.

1988 Chicago Tribune 17 Feb. vii. 3 Cindy Crawford..wears a little lacey swimdress with golden Lycra thong in Sports Illustrated's annual T-and-A swimsuit issue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online January 2018).

thongv.

Brit.

/θɒŋ/, U.S.

/θɔŋ/,

/θɑŋ/

Forms: see prec.

Etymology: < thong n. Compare Old Norse þvengja (skó) to furnish (shoes) with a thong.

1. trans. To furnish with a thong; to fasten or secure with a thong or thongs; to bind with thongs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > fasten with a thong

thong?c1225

lanyer1483

whang1855

?c1225 [see thonged adj. at Derivatives].

1483 Cath. Angl. 388/1 To Thwange [v.r. Twange], corrigiare.

1723 R. Millar Hist. Propagation Christianity II. vii. 302 Their Habits are Sheep Skins undressed thonged together.

1861 Life of Bacon xx. 414 He too is thonging the scourge for his own back.

2. To flog or lash with a thong. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or thong

belt1568

leathera1630

strappado1655

stirrup1735

thong1746

strap1832

1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 6 Chell [= ich will] thong tha,..chell pummel tha,..chell lace tha.

1853 Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 23 Mrs. Newcome thonged him with the lash of her indignation.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 743 ‘Stick to them, my lads’, shouts Captain Blake, double-thonging with a hunting-whip like a maniac.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vii. 171 He..was quite capable of raising a wale upon that epidermis which it suited him to thong.

3. dial. (See quot. 1888.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil or twist together

entertain1481

wreathe1553

wringle1572

weave1578

entwine1616

intertwine1641

encurl1647

betwine1661

intervolve1667

twine1679

interwind1693

implicate1826

interwreathe1866

thong1888

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Thong, to twine or twist together.

4. dial. intr. To become viscous or ‘ropy’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > become viscous or thicken [verb (intransitive)] > form thread-like parts

ropec1450

string1839

thong1847

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Thong, to rope; to stretch out into viscous threads or filaments.

Derivatives

thonged adj. /θɒŋd/ furnished or fastened with thongs; esp. thonged sandal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [adjective] > fastened with thongs

thonged?c1225

langledc1440

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of

alpargata1613

opanka1778

pampootie1846

kaparrang1867

huarache1887

chappal1893

bakya1916

platform sandal1940

jandal1950

flip-flop1958

thonged sandal1958

thong sandal1965

toe-thong sandal1966

thong1967

slip-slop1971

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 266 & me ne mei naut..twa þongede scheon habbe wið ute bune.

a1847 J. T. Hurlock in Essex Rev. XVII. 56 Scourge not with thonged whips.

1880 R. Browning Echetlos in Dramatic Idyls 22 The large limbs thonged and brown.

1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds (1959) ix. 189 She had high-heeled thonged sandals on her feet.

1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xv. 135 Fashionable accessories, including thonged sandals.

1982 J. Elliott Country of her Dreams ii. 15 Rosa Treadwell, in thonged sandals and sweat-stained smock, flumped herself down.

ˈthonging n. flogging with a thong.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with leather or strap

strapping1806

thonging1860

1860 Thackeray Small-beer Chron. in Roundabout Papers Is there no enemy who would be the better for a little thonging?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online January 2018).

单词	thong
释义	thongn. Brit. /θɒŋ/, U.S. /θɔŋ/, /θɑŋ/ Forms: α. Old English ðwong, ðuong, ðwangc, þwæng, ðuuencg, Old English–Middle English þwang; Middle English thuang, Middle English (Sc. and north.–1800s) thwang (Middle English thwange, twange, 1500s thwangue), Middle English–1600s Sc. thwayng. β. Middle English þwong, þuong(e, Middle English thwong(e (dial. twonge). γ. Middle English þong, Middle English– thong, (Middle English þonge, thongh, 1500s–1600s thonge, 1500s thongue). δ. Middle English thownge, thowyng; dial.1700s–1800s thung, thunk, thonk. Etymology: Old English þwang , þwǫng strong masculine (also feminine); also, Old Northumbrian plural ðuuencgu , N. Anglian þwænga , agreeing with Old Norse þvengr ( < þvaŋgi^z ); all from ablaut stem þwing- , þwang- , þwung- , to restrain < Indo-European root twenk : compare German zwingen : see twing n., twinge v.¹, and compare the dialect form whang n.¹ a. A narrow strip of hide or leather, for use as a lace, cord, band, strap, or the like.In early use, esp. the lace or ‘latchet’ of a shoe. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > thong, lace, or cord > leather thongc950 α. c950 Lindisf. G. John i. 27 Ic ne am wyrðe þætte ic undoe his ðuong scoes [Rushw. ðwong giscoes, Ags. Gosp. sceoþwang]. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) i. 7 His sceona þwanga [Lindisf. ðuongas scóe his, Rushw. þwongas gescoas his]. c1000 Ælfric Genesis (Gr.) xiv. 23 Þæt ic ne underfo furðon anne þwang of eallum þisum þingum. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 379/32 Corrigie, olþwongas. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 332/12 Corrigia, ðwangc. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 22295 Somme makede þwanges. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12823 To lese þe thuanges of his sco. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxviii. 4599 A royne lanȝhare..And schare a thwayng at all laysere. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xi. 5 Dartis..Quhilk thai with lyamis and thwangis lang owt threw. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biv/1 A Thwangue, lorum. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 428 A Thwang for a shoe, the latchet. β. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 137 Ich nam noht ne for ðen wurðe þat ich un-cnutte his sho þuong.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11126 Sum makde þwonges [c1300 Otho þwanges].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2492 As moche place as mid a þuong ich may aboute tille.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 369 Þey usede hiȝe schone unto þe kne, i-slitte to fore, and i-laced wiþ þwonges.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 194 Syþen þrawen wyth a þwong, a þwarle-knot alofte.1485 Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 22 Henge a lytel keye by a thwonge.γ. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7097 Þa al islit wes þe þong he wes wunder ane long.a1375 William of Palerne (1867) l. 1720 Sche..festened hire in þat fel wiþ ful gode þonges.1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. lvi. 40 Engyst prayd hym..of as moche place as he myght compasse with a thong of a skynne.1565 A. Golding tr. Cæsar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 138 He aduised him to tie the letter to the thong of a Iaueling, & so to throw it into his camp.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oi^v/1 A Thongue, lorum.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. (1637) 339 A beasts hide cut into thongs.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxix, in Poems (1878) IV. 145 Another girds his Frock, with a sure Thonge [rhyme strong].1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 188 The Noose of a Leather Thong.1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xvii. 246 Subsisting on the bark of trees or the thongs of raw hide.δ. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 656/1 Hec corigia, thowyng.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 492/1 Thownge, or lanere.a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Thunk, Lancashire pronunciation of Thong.1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. at Thung ‘I give the cobbler a penny fur two thunks’.1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Thonk, a thong, a bootlace; also Thunk. †b. A phylactery. Only Old English. rare. ΚΠ c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 5 Hia gebrædas forðon ðuuencgu hiora. c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 5 Þwænga. c. Such a strip used as an instrument of flagellation; also as the lash of a whip; hence spec. a whip-lash of plaited hide. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge swepea700 scourgea1225 whipc1325 swaipa1400 flagellec1430 flail?a1475 foueta1492 scorpion1541 lash1577 sot1588 thong1592 chawbuck1698 knout1716 taw1787 flagellum1807 1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. iii A boy was beaten on the taile with a leathern thong. 1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 36 The trembling Steed..Nor hears the Rein, nor heeds the sounding Thong. 1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 360 Man's coltish disposition asks the thong. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ii. vi. 297 A gentleman..left the whip to have a new thong put to it. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 195 Horace prayed for a settled standard of punishment, lest any one should be subjected to the horrible thong, who is only deserving of a slight whipping. d. transf. A similar strip of other material, as a tough pliant plant-stem, etc.; spec. a root or root-cutting of horse-radish or sea-kale. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > thong, lace, or cord lainera1387 lashc1440 lanyard1483 lingel1538 whangc1540 lunge1607 lore1621 ament1623 thong1665 lad1847 lorum1903 the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > rootlet, fibre, or subsidiary root string1398 by-root1578 fillet1601 taw1615 tapon1641 fibre1656 fang1664 fibril1664 rootlinga1706 lateral root1724 rootlet1783 radicle1793 radicel1819 viver1877 branch-root1884 sprangle1896 thong1927 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 6 Bound together with thongs of Brambles. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 696 Take a thong of this substance [india-rubber]. 1875 T. W. Higginson Young Folks' Hist. U.S. iii. 17 The edges were sewed with thongs cut from the roots of the cedar. 1927 Smallholder 26 Mar. 105 Plant [horseradish] each year..fresh pieces..made from the side roots or thongs. 1927 Smallholder 26 Mar. 105 It is now time to plant out thongs of seakale. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 1916/2 Cuttings [of seakale], or thongs as they are frequently called, are clean straight pieces of the side roots. 1961 Amateur Gardening 21 Oct. 9/3 The thick roots [of seakale] or ‘thongs’..are not needed for forcing. e. fig.; esp. in phrase to cut a large thong (or large thongs) of another man's leather, to cut long thongs of other men's hides, to be lavish with that which is another's. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander or be prodigal [verb (intransitive)] > that which is another's to cut a large thong (or large thongs) of another man's leatherc1380 to cut long thongs of other men's hides1866 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > that which fetterOE shackle?c1225 cagec1300 chainc1374 to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380 corda1382 gablea1555 obligation1582 hamper1613 tethera1628 girdlea1630 confiner1654 trammela1657 cramp1719 swathe1864 tie1868 lockstep1963 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > that which fetterOE shackle?c1225 cagec1300 chainc1374 to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380 corda1382 gablea1555 obligation1582 manacle1587 hamper1613 tethera1628 girdlea1630 confiner1654 trammela1657 cramp1719 swathe1864 tie1868 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 76 Þis ordre is a þuonge to bynde mennis willes togidere. a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 70 It is worthy he smerte and be wo, Þat of his owen skyn wole kerue a thong. 1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 316 Men cut large thongys here of othere mens lethere. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 26 What chance that I..Should speak to purpose, or with better hope Crack the satiric thong? 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 51 As long as I could cut long thongs out of other men's hides. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 149 The silken tie became a thong Wherewith she pinioned him in bondage strong. f. Austral. and U.S. = flip-flop n. 6. Cf. thong sandal n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of alpargata1613 opanka1778 pampootie1846 kaparrang1867 huarache1887 chappal1893 bakya1916 platform sandal1940 jandal1950 flip-flop1958 thonged sandal1958 thong sandal1965 toe-thong sandal1966 thong1967 slip-slop1971 1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 87 Her feet, in scuffed leather thongs, were none too clean. 1976 New Yorker 17 May 35/2 Please, no clogs, Earth Shoes, or thongs. 1981 H. Engel Ransom Game (1982) xxx. 197 She..handed me a pair of Japanese thongs. I slipped them on and felt the skin between my first two toes protest. Compounds C1. General attrib. a. thong-point n. ΚΠ 1897 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 593/2 A leather sporran tagged with thong points tied in knots. thong-wearer n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] > member of Jacobina1325 preacher?c1335 Black Friar1417 Dominicc1540 Jacobitea1563 preaching friar1598 Dominicana1632 cherubic1826 cherubic friar1826 thong-wearer1901 1901 Athenæum 2 Nov. 589/1 It is the cord-wearer [Franciscan] rather than the thong-wearer [Dominican] who is the hero of the more scandalous anecdotes. b. thong-hurled adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [adjective] > discharged from sling or thong thong-hurled1685 slung1893 1685 C. Cotton tr. Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. 23 The bear, made fiercer by the wound from the Lybian's thong-hurled dart. C2. thong-drill n. a drill rotated by means of a thong or cord wound round its stem. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > drill worked by string or cord bow-drill1865 cord-drill1865 pump drill1865 thong-drill1865 fiddle-drill1888 Yankee fiddle1892 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 242 The thong-drill with the mouthpiece. thong-man n. a man who wields the thong or lash; in 1876, a critic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips whipper1552 jerker1565 scourger1580 lasher1611 firkera1626 whipster1670 yarker1677 bone-polisher1803 horsewhipper1808 flagellator1824 thong-man1876 sjambokker1953 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xv. 278 Self-appointed thongmen, who walk up and down our ranks flapping their leathern straps. thong sandal n. Austral. and U.S. = sense f above. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of alpargata1613 opanka1778 pampootie1846 kaparrang1867 huarache1887 chappal1893 bakya1916 platform sandal1940 jandal1950 flip-flop1958 thonged sandal1958 thong sandal1965 toe-thong sandal1966 thong1967 slip-slop1971 1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1057/2 Supporting activities, like teaching and editing and selling thong-sandals. 1972 J. Aiken Butterfly Picnic iii. 59 He wore a magenta tussore shirt..burnt-orange shorts, and local-made thong sandals. thong-seal n. a name sometimes given to the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, the hide of which is cut into a continuous strip for use as a line. thong weed n. = sea-thong n. at sea n. Compounds 6e. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds sea-thong1633 sea-lace1666 sea-points1666 fucus1714 sea-catgut1833 sea-whipcord1833 sea-whiplash1833 thread-tangle1844 whipcord1850 whiplash1850 sea-whip1858 thong weed1958 1958 Listener 31 July 179/2 With I-Spy at the Seaside I shall look for..some thong weed. 1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 4/2 Himanthalia elongata (‘Thong Weed’) is to be found attached to rock surfaces. Derivatives thongy adj. /ˈθɒŋɪ/ dial. see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] > specifically of liquids > forming or containing thread-like parts roping1440 ropy1467 roped?1489 long1569 stringy1694 thready1733 thongy1847 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Thongy, ropy, viscid. Somerset. 1885 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 17 112 Cider is often said 'to thongy', or ‘to be thongy’, when it gets into the peculiar state known as ‘reamed’ or ‘ropy’. Draft additions 1993 A skimpy garment (similar to a G-string) consisting of a cache-sexe and a narrow elasticated strip extending between the legs and buttocks to meet a waistband, and worn esp. as an item of swimwear. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > clothing for loins or genital area > other tanga1912 cache-sexe1926 monokini1964 thong1975 T-back1981 1975 Times 22 Apr. 9/1 Rudi Gernreich['s]..new bathing suit, also available as an item of lingerie..is called the Thong. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Aug. 11/5 John Fogel has been fined..for wearing a ‘thong’ on the beach and thus exposing his buttocks. 1988 Chicago Tribune 17 Feb. vii. 3 Cindy Crawford..wears a little lacey swimdress with golden Lycra thong in Sports Illustrated's annual T-and-A swimsuit issue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online January 2018). thongv. Brit. /θɒŋ/, U.S. /θɔŋ/, /θɑŋ/ Forms: see prec. Etymology: < thong n. Compare Old Norse þvengja (skó) to furnish (shoes) with a thong. 1. trans. To furnish with a thong; to fasten or secure with a thong or thongs; to bind with thongs. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > fasten with a thong thong?c1225 lanyer1483 whang1855 ?c1225 [see thonged adj. at Derivatives]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 388/1 To Thwange [v.r. Twange], corrigiare. 1723 R. Millar Hist. Propagation Christianity II. vii. 302 Their Habits are Sheep Skins undressed thonged together. 1861 Life of Bacon xx. 414 He too is thonging the scourge for his own back. 2. To flog or lash with a thong. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or thong belt1568 leathera1630 strappado1655 stirrup1735 thong1746 strap1832 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 6 Chell [= ich will] thong tha,..chell pummel tha,..chell lace tha. 1853 Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 23 Mrs. Newcome thonged him with the lash of her indignation. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 743 ‘Stick to them, my lads’, shouts Captain Blake, double-thonging with a hunting-whip like a maniac. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vii. 171 He..was quite capable of raising a wale upon that epidermis which it suited him to thong. 3. dial. (See quot. 1888.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil or twist together entertain1481 wreathe1553 wringle1572 weave1578 entwine1616 intertwine1641 encurl1647 betwine1661 intervolve1667 twine1679 interwind1693 implicate1826 interwreathe1866 thong1888 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Thong, to twine or twist together. 4. dial. intr. To become viscous or ‘ropy’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > become viscous or thicken [verb (intransitive)] > form thread-like parts ropec1450 string1839 thong1847 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Thong, to rope; to stretch out into viscous threads or filaments. Derivatives thonged adj. /θɒŋd/ furnished or fastened with thongs; esp. thonged sandal. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [adjective] > fastened with thongs thonged?c1225 langledc1440 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of alpargata1613 opanka1778 pampootie1846 kaparrang1867 huarache1887 chappal1893 bakya1916 platform sandal1940 jandal1950 flip-flop1958 thonged sandal1958 thong sandal1965 toe-thong sandal1966 thong1967 slip-slop1971 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 266 & me ne mei naut..twa þongede scheon habbe wið ute bune. a1847 J. T. Hurlock in Essex Rev. XVII. 56 Scourge not with thonged whips. 1880 R. Browning Echetlos in Dramatic Idyls 22 The large limbs thonged and brown. 1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds (1959) ix. 189 She had high-heeled thonged sandals on her feet. 1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xv. 135 Fashionable accessories, including thonged sandals. 1982 J. Elliott Country of her Dreams ii. 15 Rosa Treadwell, in thonged sandals and sweat-stained smock, flumped herself down. ˈthonging n. flogging with a thong. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with leather or strap strapping1806 thonging1860 1860 Thackeray Small-beer Chron. in Roundabout Papers Is there no enemy who would be the better for a little thonging? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online January 2018). < n.c950v.?c1225
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