Whang vs Whing - What's the difference?
whang | whing |
(chiefly, of an object) To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.
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(informal) To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
* 1993 , (illustrator), The Fields of Home , page 31:
(US, slang) To whack or beat.
A high-pitched ringing sound
* 1855: Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
* 1578: Henry Lyte (tr.), A Niewe herball or historie of plantes
* 1791: letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West , vol. 4 (1896)
* 1869: James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect
*:: An’ shakin ther whings , thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.
As verbs the difference between whang and whing
is that whang is (chiefly|of an object) to make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air while whing is to move with great force or speed.As nouns the difference between whang and whing
is that whang is (uk|us|dialect|informal|dated) a leather thong while whing is a high-pitched ringing sound or whing can be .whang
English
Etymology 1
Imitative.Verb
(en verb)- I don't know how long it might have gone on if Grandfather hadn't lost his temper. He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump.
- I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.
Etymology 2
Debuccalized (.Alternative forms
*wangwhing
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)- " Whing', ' whing ," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. . .
Etymology 2
See .Noun
(en noun)- The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
- we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded
- When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll
