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wang | tang |

As a noun tang is

pliers.

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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    tang

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) tongue
  • * 1667 , , Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew , Act V,
    • Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
  • A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
  • * 1904 ,
    • The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
  • A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
    • Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  • (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
  • * Fuller
    • Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
  • * Jeffrey
    • a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
  • * 1913 ,
    • What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?
  • A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position
  • The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
  • The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
  • The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
  • The tongue of a buckle
  • A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
    • Synonyms
    * bite * piquancy * spiciness
    Antonyms
    * blandness * dullness
    Derived terms
    * tangy * clown tang * purple tang * Red Sea sailfin tang * sohal tang * spotted unicorn tang * yellow tang
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    imitative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.Eva Crane, The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting'', Taylor & Francis (1999), ISBN 0415924677, page 239.Hilda M. Ransome, ''The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore , Courier Dover Publications (2004), ISBN 048643494X, page 225.
  • To make a ringing sound; to ring.
    • Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.

    Etymology 3

    Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A coarse blackish seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum )

    • Etymology 4

    From poontang by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The vagina; intercourse with a woman
  • * 2002 , Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed , St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0-312-31363-2, page 9,
    • The guys like to look at her tang , because that's how they are

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