Twinged vs Twanged - What's the difference?
twinged | twanged |
(twinge)
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=7/2 To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
* Hudibras
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
* L'Estrange
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
(twang)
The sound of a vibrating string, e.g. of a bow, or a musical instrument.
A technical term for a particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electrical guitars.
A trace of regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
A sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
As verbs the difference between twinged and twanged
is that twinged is past tense of twinge while twanged is past tense of twang.twinged
English
Verb
(head)twinge
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
Verb
(twing)- When a man is past his sense, / There's no way to reduce him thence, / But twinging him by the ears or nose, / Or laying on of heavy blows.
- The gnat twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.