Whang
name, noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A blow; a whack. colloquial, dialectal
- 2 A leather thong. UK, US, dated, dialectal, informal
- 3 the act of hitting vigorously wordnet
- 4 A large piece or slice; a chunk. British, Scotland, colloquial, dialectal
- 5 The penis. slang
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- 6 A house-cleaning party. US, dated, dialectal
- 1 To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
"The holder of the torch grunted, and (after pausing a second at B.'s bed to inspect a picture of perfect innocence) banged out through the door which whanged to behind him..."
- 2 attack forcefully wordnet
- 3 To throw with a rapid slamming motion. informal, transitive
"I don't know how long it might have gone on if Grandfather hadn't lost his temper. He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump."
- 4 propel or hit with force wordnet
- 5 To whack or beat. British, Scotland, US, dialectal, slang
"I ought to have whanged him one in the eye."
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- 6 beat with force wordnet
- 7 To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop. Scotland
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"The holder of the torch grunted, and (after pausing a second at B.'s bed to inspect a picture of perfect innocence) banged out through the door which whanged to behind him..."
Etymology
Imitative. Compare wang.
Debuccalized (/θw/ > /hw/) from Scots thwang, cognate to thong.
From the Korean surname, spelling variant of Wang.
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