Sang vs Spang - What's the difference?

sang | spang |

As verbs the difference between sang and spang

is that sang is simple past of sing while spang is to set with bright points: star or spangle.

As a noun spang is

a shiny ornament or object; a spangle.

As an adverb spang is

suddenly; slap, smack.

sang

English

Verb

(head)

(sing)

Anagrams

* English irregular simple past forms ----

spang

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A shiny ornament or object; a spangle

* Spenser

With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.

Verb

(en verb)

To set with bright points: star or spangle.

To hitch; fasten.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia

Verb

(en verb)

(of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report

* 1895 , (Stephen Crane), (The Red Badge of Courage)

Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.

* 1918 , (Zane Grey), The U.P. Trail

How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!

Adverb

(-)

(dated) Suddenly; slap, smack.

* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:

And I didn't stop until I found myself spang in the middle of the Musée de Cluny, clutching the rack.

Etymology 3

Probably from (spring) (verb) or (spank) (verb)

Verb

(en verb)

(intransitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To leap; spring.

* Ramsay

But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.

(transitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) A bound or spring; a leap.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Etymology 4

See (span)

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) A span.

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