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Wu-wang, the head of the princely family of _Tscheu-li_.

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  1. The jaw, jaw-bone, or cheek-bone. [Obsolete or vulgar.] Thy wordis makis me my wangges to wete, And chaunges, childe, ful often my cheere. York Plays, p. 64.
  2. [Short for wang-tooth.] A cheek-tooth or grinder. Chaucer.
  3. A dialectal reduction of whang.

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  • "Keep on buying your big gigantic pickemup truck with it's gigantic towing ability that shows how tiny your wang is" —  Autoblog
  • My now revised feelings about him being a wang are undoubtedly of my own frustrations with a lack of experimental theater stardom (read: career) or perhaps just plain ol 'Mommy-Daddy issues. —  Culturebot
  • The only images burned into my brain are those of a disturbingly HARD GAY male bathhouse scene and a fight between two monsters, one with a head shaped like a wang, and the other which looks like three wangs joined together. —  Azure Flame
  • Report Abuse ironfist wang will be better this season? you mean better than last season, when he missed most of the year? the only way you draft wang is if your league counts IP
  • Chien-Ming wang is the sole reason why the Yankees 'starting rotation currently has the highest ERA of all teams in the Majors. —  The LoHud Yankees Blog
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  1. from Middle English wange, wonge, from Anglo-Saxon wange, wonge, cheek, jaw (wang-beard, cheek-beard, wang-tōth, wang-tooth, jaw-tooth, grind er, thunwange, temple: see thunwange), = Old Saxon wanga = Low German wang = Old High German wanga, Middle High German G. wange, cheek, jaw (Gothic (Moesogothic) *waggo not recorded); by some supposed to have been orig. ‘an extended surface’ (the expanse of the face), and thus connected with Anglo-Saxon wang, wong = Icelandic vangr = Goth, waggs, a plain, field, meadow, though most names for parts of the body have no such origin.
 

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