bong
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:38 am
From the AHD :
Henri
I was unfamiliar with any but the onomatopoetic use of this word, before reading the following in the current issueof Harpers Weekly Review (which I strongly recommend) :bong[sup]2[/sup] [...]
n.
A water pipe that consists of a bottle or a vertical tube partially filled with liquid and a smaller tube ending in a bowl, used often in smoking narcotic substances.
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[Thai baung.]
Another, for philologists certainly more encouraging notice from the Review is the following :... and a Vermont teenager was accused of breaking into a tomb and beheading a corpse. He apparently wanted to use the skull as a bong.
Does anyone know the details ?...... Scientists used infrared technology to read lost
works by Sophocles, Euripides, and Hesiod...
Henri