Suzie Wong

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From The World of Suzie Wong, a 1960 film about a Hong Kong prostitute named Suzie Wong.

Noun

Suzie Wong (plural Suzie Wongs)

  1. (dated, slang, euphemistic, mid-20th century) An East Asian or Southeast Asian female prostitute (particularly in Hong Kong and in Vietnam War–era Southeast Asia)
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) A pong; a bad smell.[1]

References

  1. ^ http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199829941.001.0001/acref-9780199829941-e-45986
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