tang

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  1. noun A distinctively sharp taste, flavor, or odor, as that of orange juice. See Synonyms at taste.
  2. noun A distinctive quality that adds piquancy.
  3. noun A trace, hint, or smattering.
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  • But once he'd tasted the pork chops with their surprising and delicious citrus tang, the pasta salad with a unique touch of both sweet and tart in the dressing, and the bread that proved to indeed be home baked-with not a bread machine in sight-he couldn't stop. —  ClayYeager'sRedemption
  • And she thought she smelled an iron tang, the scent of blood. —  AnalogSFF,April2006
  • I also noticed a very slight tartness and tang, and a clean-tasting light fruitiness that matches the elegance of the bottle. —  An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink
  • The yogurt tang is actually more lemony than yogurty, however, and the milky bite seems like an after thought. —  The Anime Blog - We Go Beyond Anime!
  • Chinese Taipei's Lin Wen-tang, playing alongside 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson, signed for a 77 in his major debut and like Singh, he struggled to handle his nerves. —  The Times Of India Sports
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aroma ·  whiff ·  stink ·  odour ·  flavour ·  savour ·  stank ·  fume ·  sweetness ·  tingle ·  flavors ·  taint
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  1. Middle English tange, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse tangi, point, sting.
  2. Imitative.

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  1. Origin undetermined.
  2. from Middle English tang, tange, a point, sting, dagger; from Icelandic tangi = Norwegian tange, the tang of a knife, a spit, or projection of land; related to Icelandic töng (tang-) = Anglo-Saxon tange, tang, etc., English tang, in plural tongs (see tong); akin to Greek δάκνειν, bite, Sanskrit √ daṅç, daç, bite. Cf. tang. The word in some senses (as the ‘tongue’ of a buckle) seems to be confused with Middle English tong, tonge, English tongue.
  3. from tang, n.
  4. Also dial. tank and twang; from Middle English *tange, tongge, a sharp taste; prob. literally ‘sting,’ a particular use of tang, sting; cf. Middle Dutch tangher, tanger = Middle Low German Low German tanger = Old High German zangar, zankar, Middle High German zanger, biting, sharp; from the same root as tang.
  5. from Danish tang = Swedish tång = Norwegian tang, taang = Icelandic thang, seaweed, kelp. Hence ult. Norman F. tangon, seaweed, and (through Icelandic thöngull) English tangle, seaweed, whence tangle, interlace: see tangle, tangle.
  6. An imitative word; cf. twang, ting, ting-tang, tingle-tangle, etc.
  7. from tang, v.
  8. Also tangue (French tangue); from a native name.
 

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