Bhang vs Whang - What's the difference?
bhang | whang |
Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent.
* 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 101:
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36
(chiefly, of an object) To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.
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(informal) To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
* 1993 , (illustrator), The Fields of Home , page 31:
(US, slang) To whack or beat.
As nouns the difference between bhang and whang
is that bhang is cannabis, especially as used in the indian subcontinent while whang is (uk|us|dialect|informal|dated) a leather thong.As a verb whang is
(chiefly|of an object) to make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.bhang
English
Noun
(-)- He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.
- Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang , and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.
whang
English
Etymology 1
Imitative.Verb
(en verb)- I don't know how long it might have gone on if Grandfather hadn't lost his temper. He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump.
- I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.
