Spane vs Spang - What's the difference?
spane | spang |
(obsolete) A shiny ornament or object; a spangle
* Spenser
(of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report
* 1895 , (Stephen Crane), (The Red Badge of Courage)
* 1918 , (Zane Grey), The U.P. Trail
(dated) Suddenly; slap, smack.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
(intransitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To leap; spring.
* Ramsay
(transitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.
As verbs the difference between spane and spang
is that spane is to wean; to spean 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.spang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.
Etymology 2
OnomatopoeiaVerb
(en verb)- Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.
- How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!
Adverb
(-)- 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)- But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.