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Bangier vs Banger - What's the difference?

bangier | banger |

As an adjective bangier

is comparative of bangy.

As a noun banger is

: A firework that makes a bang.

bangier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (bangy)

    • Anagrams

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    bangy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * banghy * bhangy

    Noun

    (bangies)
  • (India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author=Asiatic Society of Bengal , title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=267 , passage=The men, to the number of 800, march in single file, and each man occupies a space of six feet, being obliged to carry a bangy' containing his provisions, cooking pots, &c. besides his musket, which is tied to the ' bangy stick.}}

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characterized by a lot of banging sounds; clangy.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 3, author=The New York Times, title=Music in Review, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But her performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E (whose finale includes Baroque references, like a fugato) at times sounded bangy , although there were lovely moments in the Andante. }}

    banger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British): A firework that makes a bang.
  • (British, slang) A woman's breast.
  • (British, NZ, slang) A sausage.
    • bangers and mash
  • (slang) An old, worn-out car.
  • (US, slang) A cylinder in a car.
    • He drives a little four-banger to work.
  • (US, slang) A member of a gang, shortened version of the word gangbanger.

    • Synonyms

    * (sausage) snag (Australia) * (car) bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck

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