The Cockney mode of speech, with its unpleasant twang, is a modern corruption without legitimate credentials, and is unworthy of being the speech of any person in the capital city of the Empire.
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Twang
//twæŋ//
Synonyms for "twang" (135 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (67)
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6 entrieshas context
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4 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 7 languages.
Czech
4 entries- brnknutí noun (sound of a tight string)
- huhňání noun (nasal speech)
- brnknout verb (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound)
- drnknout verb (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound)
Finnish
3 entries- honottaa verb (to have a nasal sound)
- korostaa verb (to have a trace of a regional or foreign accent)
- näppäillä verb (music: to play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping)
German
3 entries- Näseln noun (sound of a tight string)
- näseln verb (to have a nasal sound)
- zupfen verb (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound)
Hungarian
3 entries- pendül verb (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound)
- peng verb (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound)
- penget verb (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਤਰਬ noun (sound of a tight string)
Romanian
4 entries- vibrație noun (sound of a tight string)
- zbârnâit noun (sound of a tight string)
- zumzet noun (sound of a tight string)
- nazaliza verb (to have a nasal sound)
Telugu
1 entries- టంకారము noun (sound of a tight string)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Let me give you in rude recitation, with here and there a twang and a caper of the guitar-strings, my vision of the Cid's sally from his besieged castle of Alcocer—the first outburst of that Spanish deluge that never receded till it rose over the dead body of the last Moor.
Source: wiktionary
Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern-European twang in his voice.
Source: wiktionary
A few insinuated that the American was not first-rate in Shakespeare, and one or two snidely detected a twang of the backwoods in his accent; […]
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