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" (150 found)
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12 entriesbanjo twangbowstring twangcountry twangdialectal twangguitar twangironic twangnasal twangregional twangsarcastic edgesouthern twangstring twangviolin twang
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11 entriesbowstring twangcountry twangguitar twangmetallic twangnasal twangsharp twangsouthern twangtwang of voicetwang the guitartwang the stringtwangy voice
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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.
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Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern-European twang in his voice.
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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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