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Swang vs Stang - What's the difference?

swang | stang |

As nouns the difference between swang and stang

is that swang is a swamp while stang is a long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

As verbs the difference between swang and stang

is that swang is simple past of swing. Now largely replaced by swung while stang is to shoot with pain, to sting.

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.

    Anagrams

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    stang

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (cognate with Old English steng).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
  • * 1962 ,
    • Gripping the stang , she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
  • (archaic, or, obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
  • * 1880 ,
    • These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang ,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")
    Derived terms
    * stang ball * ride the stang

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
  • (Scotland) To spear; to sting.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dialect, rare) (sting)

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----