Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thong or whip of hide or leather.
- n. A lashing blow, as of a whip.
- n. The sound of such a blow.
- n. Vulgar Slang The penis.
- v. To beat or whip with a thong.
- v. To beat with a sharp blow or blows.
- v. To strike so as to produce a loud, reverberant noise.
- v. To produce a loud, reverberant noise.
- n. A loud, reverberant noise.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thong, especially a leathern thong.
- n. A tough leather, such as is used for thongs, belt-lacing, etc. It is usually made of calf's hide, but sometimes of eelskin or the hide of a dog, woodchuck, racoon, etc.
- To beat or bang; thwack; whack; flog; also, to throw with violence.
- To cut in large slices or strips; slice.
- To make or give out a banging noise.
- n. A blow or thwack; a whack; a beating or banging; a bang
- n. A cut; a piece; a slice; a chunk.
- n. Formerly, in Maine and some other parts of New England, a house-cleaning party; a gathering of neighbors to aid one of their number in cleaning house.
Wiktionary
- v. To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.
- v. informal, transitive To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
- v. US, slang To whack or beat.
- n. slang A penis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. A leather thong.
- v. Scot. & Dial. Eng. To beat; thrash; bang; also, to throw, hurl, or fling about, violently.
- v. Scot. To slice, esp. in large pieces; to chop.
- n. Dial. or Colloq. A blow; whack.
- n. Scot. & Dial. Eng. A large piece or slice; chunk.
- n. Local, U. S. Formerly, a house-cleaning party.
WordNet 3.0
- v. attack forcefully
- v. propel or hit with force
- v. beat with force
- n. the act of hitting vigorously
Etymologies
- Debuccalized (/θw/ > /hw/) from Scots thwang, cognate to thong. (Wiktionary)
- Dialectal variant of Middle English thong, thwang, thong; see thong.Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Even those evil days of New England households, the annual house-cleaning, were robbed of some of their dismal terrors by what was known as a "whang," a gathering of a few friendly women neighbors to assist one another in that dire time, and thus speed and shorten the hours of misery.”
“All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out --”
“I heard a shell whang dead center into his helmet and ricochet inside.”
“In the old days, when Clete and I walked a beat on Canal and in the Quarter, a cop in trouble or chasing a perp would whang his baton on the pavement or a curb as a distress signal to other cops.”
“OTAY so i sweeps the oooshy grey goop into a pan wipe the dirt of wiff my sleeve plop the mess inta the cavernous gaping skull crater whang the parts ob skull into place”
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“A good source to buy some organic astralagus/whang-ki: Mountain Rose Herbs.”
“Country blues performers can whang away on one chord for hours, working themselves and an audience into a lather.”
“I'm not sure I mentioned this previously, but that whang-whang-whang downtown is a common, if obnoxious, part of construction around here.”
“Will attempt to avoid both Shopping Mania and Construction Chaos in both cases -- difficult, as that whang...whang...whang of the pile-driver is just across a parking lot or two from my afternoon meeting, while some of the morning shopping is on the far side of a missing bridge...”
“So let use off be octo while oil bike the bil and wheel whang till wabblin befoul you but mere and mire trullopes will knaver mate a game on the bibby bobby burns of. —”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whang’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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male organ of copulation in mammals: ...
synonyms and euphemisms and metaphors and allusions
dick, dork, boner, dong, whang, tool, peepee, willy, weewee, schlang, organ, skin flute and 11 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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OED2 Quotations: Kurt Vonnegut
A list of the OED citations from an author is often a highly accurate distillation of that author's work. All Vonnegut's favourite themes are here: technology (industrial, space, radio, tube), zani...
tube, penis, zap, whang, trifocal, snootful, potch, pecker, nose, fire, string, monkey and 7 more...
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The Sirens of Titan
Words gathered while reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
edwardian, rakehell, chrono-synclastic..., parvenu, chiton, dottle, ort, residua, narwhal, lulu, peyotl, peignoir and 49 more...
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nifty book words
anthroparian words I'm still wondering about
anthroparian, buhl, caducity, dehisce, ex-voto, fylfot, gammon, hidalgo, irenist, jumby, kraken, lustrate and 21 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu House-cleaning party. Feb 9, 2011