Spanged vs Spaned - What's the difference?

spanged | spaned |

As verbs the difference between spanged and spaned

is that spanged is past tense of spang while spaned is past tense of spane.

spanged

English

Verb

(head)

(spang)

(spange)

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.

References

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Anagrams

spaned

English

Verb

(head)

(spane)

spane

English

Verb

(span)

(obsolete, UK, dialect) To wean; to spean.

(Webster 1913) ----