FromMiddle Englishpronge, perhaps fromMiddle Low Germanprange(“stick, restraining device”), fromprangen(“to press, pinch”), fromOld Saxon*prangan, fromProto-West Germanic*prangan, fromProto-Germanic*pranganą(“to press”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)preng-(“to wrap up, constrict”).
Akin toLithuanianspriñgti(“to choke, become choked or obstructed”),Latviansprañgât(“cord, constrict”),Ancient Greekσπαργανόω(sparganóō,“to swaddle”),σπάργανον(spárganon,“swaddling cloth”). See alsoprank,prance,prink.
prong (pluralprongs)
- A thin,pointed,projecting part, as of anantler or afork or similar tool. Atine.
a pitchfork with fourprongs
- (sometimes figurative) Abranch; afork.
the twoprongs of a river
the secondprong of the argument
- (colloquial) Thepenis.
1977, John Ironstone,Orphan, page102:One look at that lifeguard'sprong gave me a throbber like a baseball bat — not quite that big, of course, but at least that hard!
- 2008, Andy Zaltzman onThe Bugle podcast, episode 34,You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.
- Hang on... That looks like... No, it can't be. Is that my wang!? Micky Paintbrush, have you painted my papalprong on that nudy man!?
thin, pointed, projecting part
- Bulgarian:зъбец (bg) m(zǎbec)
- Catalan:pua (ca) f
- Czech:hrot (cs) m
- Danish:spids (da),tand (da)
- Dutch:tand (nl) m,punt (nl) m,spits (nl) m,piek (nl) m
- Finnish:kärki (fi),piikki (fi)
- French:dent (fr) f,pointe (fr) f,broche (fr) f
- Galician:galla f,puga f,dente (gl) m
- German:Zinke (de) f,Zacke (de) f,Zacken (de) m,Stift (de) m,Ende (de) n,Sprosse (de) f,Krappe (de) m,Stachel (de) m,Dorn (de) m,Stab (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient:στόρθυγξ m orf(stórthunx)
- Hungarian:fog (hu),ág (hu)
- Icelandic:gaddur (is) m
- Irish:beangán m
- Italian:punta (it) f,dente (it) m,rebbio (it) m
- Macedonian:парог m(parog),забец m(zabec)
- Maori:kātara
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:tind m
- Nynorsk:tind m
- Ottoman Turkish:چاتال(çatal)
- Polish:szpica f,grot (pl) m,kolec (pl) m,ząb (pl) m,badyl (pl) m(of an antler)
- Portuguese:ponta (pt) f,dente (pt) m
- Romanian:dinte (ro) m
- Russian:шпенёк (ru)(špenjók),зубе́ц (ru)(zubéc),отро́г (ru) m(otróg),рожо́к (ru) m(rožók)
- Slovak:vetva,výbežok,kolík,hrot (sk)
- Spanish:diente (es) m,prolongación (es) f,punta (es) f,gajo (es) m,vástago (es) m,púa (es) f,puya (es) f
- Swedish:spets (sv),klo (sv),led (sv),udd (sv) c
- Tagalog:sanga ng sungay
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prong (third-person singular simple presentprongs,present participlepronging,simple past and past participlepronged)
- Topierce orpoke with, or as if with, aprong.
to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong
Cognate withEastern Champraong.
prong
- big
