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    [Noun]  | "throng" | \ ˈthrȯŋ \


    1: a multitude of assembled persons

    2: a large number : host

    3: a crowding together of many persons


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English throng, thrang "mass, press," going back to Old English *thrang or gethrang (with ge-, collective prefix), going back to West Germanic *þrang- (whence Middle Dutch gedranc "crowd, press," dranc, drang "pressure," Old High German gidrang "crowd, mass"), noun ablaut derivative from the base of Germanic *þrengan-,*þrenhan- "to press" (whence Old Saxon thringan "to press, urge," Old High German dringan, thringan, Old Norse þryngva "to press, crowd," Gothic þreihan), going back to dialectal Indo-European *trenk- "press," whence also Lithuanian trenkiù, treñkti "to push roughly, fling";

    [Verb]  | "throng" 


    1: to crowd upon : press

    2: to crowd into : pack

    3: to crowd together in great numbers


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English thrangen, throngen, probably derivative of throng, thrang {see: |throng:1|throng:1}, replacing thringen, going back to Old English thringan;

    [Noun]  | "throng" 


    1: a great number of persons or creatures massed together;


      * e.g., " ... grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng "



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    [Verb]  | "throng" 


    1: to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers;


      * e.g., " ... fans thronged the field to celebrate the win "



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     [ "throng" ]

    1: n.

      * e.g.,  ... Keith has a large throng of freshman girls. 


     [ "throng" ]

    2: A group of people of the opposite sex that you have crushed on or that have crushed on you, that you keep up casual flirtatious relationships with, and are contacted usually on a convenience basis.

     [ "throng" ]

    1: Wearing a thong the wrong way

      * e.g.,  ... Oops! I put my throng on wrong! 

     [ "thronging" ]

    1: Sexual desire. A combination of throbbing and longing.

      * e.g.,  ... I can still remember the strange thronging in my loins that Adam Ant first stirred when I was a girl of twelve. Every time I think of my beautiful boyfriend, I am overwhelmed by a powerful thronging. 

     [ "Throng" ]

    1: When a large group of men gather around a woman wearing semi-revealing undergarments.

      * e.g.,  ... Wow, did you see the throng that showed up when Britney took off her pants? 

     [ "thronged" ]

    1: Extremely busy, hard pressed, crowded out with work.

      * e.g.,  ... "I can't talk now, I'm totally thronged." means swamped with work. "I came in to work and was thronged with emails." 


     [ "thronged" ]

    2: Originally from Norse

      * e.g.,  ... Common expression in Wall Street law firms. Originally from Old Norse. cf Icelandic þröng, etc. (narrow, tightly pressed; compelled, forced in the sense of being pressed to do something ); trang (narrow), Swedish trång (narrow, tight). All probably related to the Standard English throng (crowded, to form a tightly-packed crowd, etc.). Perhaps from Yorkshire dialect. Variants: thrang, threng. 

     [ "Throng" ]

    1: A large gathering of gay males.

      * e.g.,  ... Congress 

     [ "thronging" ]

    1: a combination of throbbing and longing caused by extreme sexual desire

      * e.g.,  ... Ms Jones felt an urgent thronging in her loins every time she glanced at her repressed, yet incredibly sexy lover. 

     [ "bong throng" ]

    1: A number of people that seem to suddenly appear out of nowhere whenever you've recently purchased some good marijuana.

      * e.g.,  ... Just minutes after Grant scored some weed, a bong throng showed up at his house looking to hit that shit for free. 

     [ "Schlonkle Thronged" ]

    1: The feeling of being unable to pass wind in a convenience store.

      * e.g.,  ... “Last night I was shopping for some eggs and Pimms in Tesco, I was completely Schlonkle Thronged.” 

     [ "Throng" ]

    1: The hatred of thong users.

      * e.g.,  ... I throng her so bad for thinking that sexy can’t come form a snowsuit. 

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