Wrang vs Whang - What's the difference?
wrang | whang |
(wring)
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To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
* Bible, Judg. vi. 38
* Shakespeare
To obtain by force.
To hold tightly and press or twist.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Leviticus i. 15
To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
* Clarendon
* Addison
To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
* Whitgift
To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
* Shakespeare
* Hayward
(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
(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.
As verbs the difference between wrang and whang
is that wrang is simple past of wring while whang is to make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.As a noun whang is
a leather thong.wrang
English
Verb
(head)wring
English
Verb
- You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
- He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
- Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
- The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.
- Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously.
- He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend.
- He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related.
- The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
- The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head
- 'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.
- Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
- Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
- How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
- To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
- The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
- to wring a mast
References
* * English irregular verbs ----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.
