Whangs vs Thangs - What's the difference?
whangs | thangs |
(whang)
(chiefly, of an object) To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.
*
(informal) To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
* 1993 , (illustrator), The Fields of Home , page 31:
(US, slang) To whack or beat.
As a verb whangs
is third-person singular of whang.As a noun thangs is
plural of lang=en.whangs
English
Verb
(head)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.