# boong
## English
### Etymology

Suggested sources are
* Malay bung (“brother”),
* Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”)
* A New Guinea native language
* An Aboriginal Australian language.
Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʊŋ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊŋ

### Noun

boong (plural boongs)
* (Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
** 1988, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines‎, page 92:I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.
** 2010, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore‎, page 82:‘ […] I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’
** 2011, Linda Lee Rathbun, Tjuringa, unnumbered page:“Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.” “And why is that?” Bill asked. “The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”
* (Australia, slang, dated) A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
** 1943, Australian Army, “Timor Souvenir”, in Khaki and Green: With the Australian Army at Home and Overseas, page 119:A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.
** 1998, August Ibrum K. Kituai, My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960‎, page 282:During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.
** 2000, Prue Torney-Parlicki, Somewhere in Asia: War, Journalism and Australia's Neighbours 1941-75‎, page 48:[Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs, no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’$^{71}$

#### Alternative forms

* bung or bong

#### Synonyms

* (Asian or dark-skinned person): Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
* (aboriginal): abo, Jacky

### See also

* List of ethnic slurs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* ↑ 1959, Xavier Herbert, Seven Emus, 2003, page 5 — The term boong is originally Malayan, meaning “brother”, but it doesn't mean anything like that in Australian usage.
* ↑ 1988, The Bulletin, Issues 5617-5625, page 121 — They would doubtless have been amused to learn that in New Guinea, where the term "boong" originated, it means "brother" and has a kinship with the Indonesian "bung" and Thursday Island's "binghi".

### Anagrams

* bogon, bongo

## Gilbertese
### Noun

boong
* plural of bong

## Makasar
### Etymology

Cognate Buginese bowong.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboːŋ/, [ˈɓõ.õŋ]
* Hyphenation: bo‧ong

### Noun

boong (Lontara spelling ᨅᨚᨕᨚ)
* (dialectal) Alternative spelling of bongong (“veil, headscarf”).

### Further reading

* A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎, Brill, →DOI

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [ɓɔŋ˧˥]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [ɓɔŋ˦]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

boong
* the central part
    boong xay ― inside the windmill

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

boong (俸)
* people in general
    Boong khua.People laugh.

#### Particle

boong (𲋄)
* pluralizing particle for pronouns

##### Derived terms

* boong hây
* boong khỏi
* boong là
* boong lầu
* boong mầư
* boong mền
* boong te

### References

* Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɓɔŋ͡m˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]

### Etymology 1

From French pont.

#### Noun

boong
* (nautical) deck

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Adjective

boong
* (onomatopoeia) bell-like resounding sound

### Etymology 3

From English bong.

#### Noun

(classifier cái) boong
* bong (water pipe used to smoke cannabis)