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Waned vs Wanged - What's the difference?

waned | wanged |

As verbs the difference between waned and wanged

is that waned is (wane) while wanged is (wang).

As an adjective waned

is (woodworking) having wanes, ie rounded corners caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

waned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wane)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (woodworking) Having wanes, i.e. rounded corners caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

    • Anagrams

    *

    wanged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wang)

    • Anagrams

    *

    wang

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Cheek; the jaw.
    • (Chaucer)
    Derived terms
    * (l)
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (onomatopoeia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (onomatopoeia) The sound made when a hollow metal object is struck a glancing blow.
  • A slap; a blow.
    • (Halliwell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To batter; to clobber; to conk.
  • To throw hard.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1993 , year_published=1997 , publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional , author=Tom McNally , title=The Complete Book of Fly Fishing , edition=Second Edition , chapter=Panfish on Flies and Bugs citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Cc6bHeUtMxwC&pg=PA283&dq=%22wanged%22, %22wanging%22+-%22wanging%27ombe%22 , isbn=9780070456389 , page=283 , passage=Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1998 , year_published=2004 , publisher=Oxford University Press , author=Barry Hines , editor=James Riordan , title=Football Stories , chapter=The Football Match citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=qzPuDN6CpEYC&pg=PA52&dq="wanged", "wanging" , isbn=9780192754059 , page=36 , passage=He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , publisher=Rodale , author=Mark Millhone , title=The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir , chapter=Saltville citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=BXIQvXs8NF4C&pg=PA132&dq="wanged", "wanging"+-"wanging'ombe" , isbn=9781594868238 , page=132 , passage=After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.}}

    Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain. Perhaps short for . See (l).

    Alternative forms

    * whang

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) Penis.

    • Anagrams

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