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Prang vs Wrang - What's the difference?

prang | wrang |

As verbs the difference between prang and wrang

is that prang is to crash an aeroplane while wrang is simple past of wring.

As a noun prang

is a bombing raid.

prang

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, military slang) A bombing raid.
  • (slang, dated) An aeroplane crash.
  • * 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories , HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page,
    • I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia.
  • (chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
  • * 1984 , Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel , page 105,
    • The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.
  • * 1999 , Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam , page 209,
    • If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs .
  • * 2009 , Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio , page 90,
    • The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang .
  • (US, slang) Crack cocaine.
  • (architecture) A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia.
  • * 1995 , Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996 , page 216,
    • The prang' is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller ' prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.
  • * 2001 , Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok , page 119,
    • The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.

    Synonyms

    * (minor accident involving a motor vehicle): bingle (Australia), collision, crash, fender-bender (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, dated) To crash an aeroplane.
  • * 1946 , , Song of India , page 332,
    • “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
  • * 2004 , John Pym (editor), Time Out Film Guide , page 70,
    • Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
  • (transitive, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
  • * 1958 , Nation , Issues 1-33, page 56,
    • “Didn?t bump nobody,” I sneer.
    “That?s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn?t say you will prang . It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.”
  • * 2005 , Thomas Marshall, Our Summer in Australia And New Zealand , page 93,
    • On Friday, I picked up our camper van, upgraded to a four sleeper so Elysee and I could each find a neutral corner, which I managed to “prang ,” navigating the parking lot, within one hour of signing away my house as security.

    Derived terms

    * pranged ----

    wrang

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wring)
    • ----

    wring

    English

    Verb

  • To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
    • You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
  • * Bible, Judg. vi. 38
    • He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
  • To obtain by force.
    • The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.
  • To hold tightly and press or twist.
    • Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously.
    He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend.
    He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
  • * Bible, Leviticus i. 15
    • The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head
  • To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
  • To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.
  • To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
  • * Clarendon
    • Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
  • * Addison
    • Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
  • To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
  • * Whitgift
    • How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
  • To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
  • * Hayward
    • The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
  • (nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
    • to wring a mast

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----