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prong.

A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.

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Meaning & usage

noun/pɹɒŋ/UK/pɹɔŋ/General-American/pɹɑŋ/cot-caught-merger

  1. A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.

    a pitchfork with four prongs
    a comb with prongs

  2. A branch; a fork.

    figuratively · sometimes
    the two prongs of a river
    the second prong of the argument

  3. A fork (agricultural tool).

    Cornwall

  4. The penis.

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”). Akin to Lithuanian spriñgti (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”), σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.

verb/pɹɒŋ/UK/pɹɔŋ/General-American/pɹɑŋ/cot-caught-merger

  1. To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”). Akin to Lithuanian spriñgti (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”), σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.

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