twang

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Best described as the twang that rang throughout the world and originally performed by The Shadows in the sixties after Bert Lordan bashed it out on a ukulele, Apache has been defiled by jazz musicians as well as Moog-munting Danes.

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  1. intransitive verb To emit a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument does when it is plucked.
  2. intransitive verb To resound with a sharp, vibrating sound.
  3. intransitive verb To speak in a strongly nasal tone of voice.
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  • The bobstay parted with a sharp twang, and the straight stem of the little cutter crashed home upon the glossy whiteness of the topsides, splintering and gouging. —  Pilotage
  • Unlike the Texan's twang, his smooth tone conjured up images of Virginia's rolling green Shenandoah mountains. —  Ross, JoAnn - Stewart Sisters 03 - Out Of The Storm.html
  • Best described as the twang that rang throughout the world and originally performed by The Shadows in the sixties after Bert Lordan bashed it out on a ukulele, Apache has been defiled by jazz musicians as well as Moog-munting Danes. —  Computerworld
  • Her voice had the right twang, her eyes the right roll, her haunches the right swing. —  The Lost Girl
  • Then there came a sudden twang, as of a violently plucked string on a bass viol, and the amber egg dropped from the faceted side. —  Devil Crystals of Arret
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Imitative.

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  1. Early modern English also twangue; ult. imitative; cf. tang and ting.
  2. from twang, v.
  3. An elliptical use of twang, v.
  4. A variant of tang.
  5. Prob. from twang, with sense imported from twinge.
 

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