Noun: prong
| Singular | prong |
| Plural | prongs |
Sample Sentences
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a pitchfork with four prongs
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a comb with prongs
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the two prongs of a river
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the second prong of the argument
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[…] a tradition is recorded that a man called 'Ralph' resided in this cavern for many years, and, with a prong as his weapon, successively kept the bailiffs at bay. [1874, Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe, Bygone days in Devonshire and Cornwall, page 104:]
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One look at that lifeguard's prong gave me a throbber like a baseball bat — not quite that big, of course, but at least that hard! [1977, John Ironstone, Orphan, page 102:]
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2008, Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle podcast, episode 34, You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.
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Hang on... That looks like... No, it can't be. Is that my wang!? Micky Paintbrush, have you painted my papal prong on that nudy man!?
Nouns inflected like prong
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
pronge'.
Verbs referencing "prong"
German Nouns
Pranger.