Meaning of gong | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
2. Wollongong.
   New-South-Wales, colloquial
3. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   obsolete
4. A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
   uncountable
5. A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
   British, slang
6. The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
   obsolete
7. An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
   uncountable
8. A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.

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Examples

“All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.”

“This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes.”

“The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday.”

“A stately Toye, a preciows peece of pellfe, A gorgeous gong, a worthles painted wall...”

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