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wang | yang |

As a noun yang is

yang.

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

    * * ----

    yang

    English

    Etymology 1

    From early romanizations of Chinese , originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings (wikipedia)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, elements of the natural world.
    • Related terms
    * (complement) yin * (unity) yin-yang

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided 100 pun.

    • Etymology 3

    Imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
  • * 1902 , Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl
    • Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.
  • * 1957 , Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899
    • Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1867 , year_published= , author= Gail Hamilton , by= , title=Wool-gathering , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=jPEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Ticknor and Fields , location= Boston , editor= , volume= , page= 185 , passage= Hangs'' is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect ''yang , — an onomatopœian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose. }} ----