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Wang

//wæŋ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Chinese.
  2. 2
    A surname from Danish, variant of Vang.
  3. 3
    A Meitei surname from Manipuri, variant of Wangjam, Wangkheimayum, Wangkheimayum, or Wangmayum.
  4. 4
    A surname from Korean [in turn from Chinese].
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of whang. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Penis. colloquial

    "Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one."

Verb
  1. 1
    To batter; to clobber; to conk. transitive
  2. 2
    To throw hard. transitive

    "Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang, a dialectal form of thong (“strip of leather”). Compare wong.

Etymology 4

From Chinese 王 (Wáng) or 汪 (Wāng). Doublet of Wong, Heng, Ong, and Vuong. As a Korean surname, from 왕 (wang), from the above.

Etymology 5

As a Danish surname, from Vang. As a German and Dutch surname, from wang (“cheek”) and obsolete derivatives of Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow”). As a Jewish surname, from the German sense, and also a nickname for someone from Hungary (compare Russian Венгрия (Vengrija)). As a North Germanic surname, spelling variant of Vang.

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡ (wāng).

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