Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See banghy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun India A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
  • adjective Characterized by a lot of banging sounds; clangy.

Etymologies

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bang +‎ -y

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Examples

  • So why the big revvy engines and loud bangy weapons?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2009

  • A couple days ago, I had occasion to play a fine recent entry in the category, Miller and Tysen's very funny "Spring Cleaning," which has this tempo indication: in a Ben Folds-ish bangy rocky showtune wayIndeed, Folds '"Song for the Dumped" makes explicit what seems to be percolating just beneath the surface of a lot of his other songs.

    I would've made you leave your key Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • A couple days ago, I had occasion to play a fine recent entry in the category, Miller and Tysen's very funny "Spring Cleaning," which has this tempo indication: in a Ben Folds-ish bangy rocky showtune wayIndeed, Folds '"Song for the Dumped" makes explicit what seems to be percolating just beneath the surface of a lot of his other songs.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Ah, just look at this fantastic artifact from the innocent era before the War on Fun kicked off -- a beautiful big bangy chemistry set, advertised in the September, 1955 Popular Mechanics.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Dey iz putz in pillollolol in rawn bangy fingy tu making it moat quiet.

    Rude awakening in - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • This bangy little track combines two things which drive some people beyond the crazy and which are like champagne and dark chocolate for the rest of us: Bjork + The Decemberists.

    Musical 2009

  • So far from being a gangsta, Snoop Dogg is now a man who meekly gives into charges to avoid jail and who only smokes drugs when his heady-weady gets all bangy-wangy.

    Snoop Dogg’s Massive Weapon Earns Him Community Service 2007

  • So it's not surprising, when making mental lists of the most whiz-bangy technological creations in our lives, that we may overlook an object that is superbly designed, wickedly functional, infinitely useful and beloved more passionately than any gadget in a Best Buy: the book.

    The Future of Reading 2007

  • This bangy little track combines two things which drive some people beyond the crazy and which are like champagne and dark chocolate for the rest of us: Bjork + The Decemberists.

    One Song: "Human Behavior" 2006

  • This bangy little track combines two things which drive some people beyond the crazy and which are like champagne and dark chocolate for the rest of us: Bjork + The Decemberists.

    One Song: "Human Behavior" 2006

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