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Spang vs Swang - What's the difference?

spang | swang |

As nouns the difference between spang and swang

is that spang is a narrow bridge for one walking person (not wide enough for two to meet), a log bridge while swang is a swamp.

As a verb swang is

(swing) now largely replaced by swung.

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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    swang

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A swamp.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (swing). Now largely replaced by swung.
  • (African American vernacular, slang) To steer one's vehicle from side to side while driving.
  • * 2005 , :
    • Turn on my blinker light and then I swang it slow
  • * 2006 , :
    • I'mma swang , I'mma swing my slab lean to the left
  • * 2010 , G. Washington, Karma from the Cradle to the Street , Xlibris (2010), ISBN 9781453596180, page 118:
    • Caine pulled off burning rubber and swanging side to side.

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