spang

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He threw up his rifle: spang--spang--spang--spang--spang His aim was across the canyon.

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  1. adverb Informal Precisely; squarely: fell spang into the middle of the puddle.

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  1. Probably from dialectal spang, to leap, jerk, bang, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English spang, from Anglo-Saxon spange, also ge-spong, a clasp, brooch, = Middle Dutch spange, Dutch spang = Middle Low German spange = Old High German spangā, Middle High German G. spange, a clasp, brooch, buckle, ornament, = Icelandic spöng, a clasp, stud, spangle, etc.; root obscure. The Gaelic spang, a spangle, is prob. from English Hence spangle.
  2. from spang, n.
  3. A variant or collateral form of spank, move quickly, perhaps due to association with spring (preterit sprang).
  4. from spang, v.
  5. apparently a corrupt form of span.
  6. Cf. span, v.
 

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