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Spang vs Pang - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between spang and pang

is that spang is a shiny ornament or object; a spangle while pang is paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe.

As verbs the difference between spang and pang

is that spang is to set with bright points: star or spangle while pang is to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering.

As an adverb spang

is suddenly; slap, smack.

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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    pang

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe
  • * 1591 , , Henry VI, Part II , act 3, sc. 3,
    • See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
  • * 1888 , , "The Nightingale and the Rose" in The Happy Prince and Other Tales ,
    • So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
  • (often, pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow
  • * 1867 , , The Guardian Angel , ch. 7,
    • He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor.

    Related terms

    * birth pangs * pang of conscience

    Verb

  • to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering
  • * 1918 , , "On Unanswering Letters" in Mince Pie ,
    • It panged him so to say good-bye when he had to leave.

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