"twang" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /twæŋ/ Audio: en-au-twang.ogg [Australia] Forms: twangs [plural]
enPR: twăng Rhymes: -æŋ Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”), from Old English twenġen (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”). Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|en}} Onomatopoeic, {{cog|enm|twengen|t=to pinch, tweak}} Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”), {{cog|ang|twenġen|t=to pinch, twinge}} Old English twenġen (“to pinch, twinge”), {{cog|enm|twingen|t=to afflict, torment, oppress}} Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), {{cog|non|þvinga|t=to weigh down, oppress}} Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”), {{cog|ang|twingan|t=to force, press}} Old English twingan (“to force, press”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} twang (plural twangs)
  1. The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. Translations (sound of a tight string): Näseln [neuter] (German), ਤਰਬ (tarab) [feminine] (Punjabi), zbârnâit [neuter] (Romanian), vibrație [feminine] (Romanian), zumzet [neuter] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-twang-en-noun-Wtm-WP5z Disambiguation of 'sound of a tight string': 76 11 0 13 0 0
  2. (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-twang-en-noun-OipOJ5wJ Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  3. A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
    Sense id: en-twang-en-noun-17idoZXf
  4. (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed. Categories (topical): Phonetics
    Sense id: en-twang-en-noun-XCJYDl8D Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
  5. A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor.
    Sense id: en-twang-en-noun-ScFQtvv3
  6. (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant. Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-twang-en-noun-QKhxJNv4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: twanger, twangy

Verb

IPA: /twæŋ/ Audio: en-au-twang.ogg [Australia] Forms: twangs [present, singular, third-person], twanging [participle, present], twanged [participle, past], twanged [past]
enPR: twăng Rhymes: -æŋ Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”), from Old English twenġen (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”). Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|en}} Onomatopoeic, {{cog|enm|twengen|t=to pinch, tweak}} Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”), {{cog|ang|twenġen|t=to pinch, twinge}} Old English twenġen (“to pinch, twinge”), {{cog|enm|twingen|t=to afflict, torment, oppress}} Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), {{cog|non|þvinga|t=to weigh down, oppress}} Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”), {{cog|ang|twingan|t=to force, press}} Old English twingan (“to force, press”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} twang (third-person singular simple present twangs, present participle twanging, simple past and past participle twanged)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound): brnknout [perfective] (Czech), drnknout [perfective] (Czech), zadrnčet [perfective] (Czech), drnčet [imperfective] (Czech), zupfen (German), peng (Hungarian), pendül (english: one time only) (Hungarian), penget (english: to cause to produce this sound) (Hungarian), zbârnâi (Romanian), zumzăi (Romanian), vibra (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-twang-en-verb-h9bxs3O6 Disambiguation of 'to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound': 95 1 1 2
  2. (intransitive) To have a nasal sound. Tags: intransitive Translations (to have a nasal sound): honottaa (Finnish), näseln (German), nazaliza (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-twang-en-verb-M7yo-muq Disambiguation of 'to have a nasal sound': 4 96 0 0
  3. (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent. Tags: intransitive Translations (to have a trace of a regional or foreign accent): korostaa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-twang-en-verb-KuxheNJJ Disambiguation of 'to have a trace of a regional or foreign accent': 3 0 94 3
  4. (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping. Categories (topical): Music Translations (music: to play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping): näppäillä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-twang-en-verb-1C0g-0ey Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'music: to play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping': 5 0 2 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: twanger, twanging, twangingly, twangster Coordinate_terms: brogue, drawl, lilt, lisp

Inflected forms

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        "(intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent."
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        }
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        "To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping."
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        "(music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 0 2 93",
          "code": "fi",
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        }
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    }
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}
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          "text": "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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          "bow"
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          "music"
        ],
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          "instrument"
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        "A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars."
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          "music"
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          "sharp",
          "sharp"
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          "electric guitar"
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        "(music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars."
      ],
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        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
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        {
          "text": "Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern-European twang in his voice.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Nigel Cliff, The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-century America, Random House Incorporated, page 90",
          "text": "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; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "December 2 2020, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65",
          "text": "Judging by the new voice over the PA, we've had a crew change in Plymouth - the warning about masks and the apology for lack of catering is made in a chirpy Cockney twang rather than a West Country burr.",
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        }
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        "A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice."
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          "regional"
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          "accent"
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        "en:Phonetics"
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        "The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed."
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        [
          "phonetics",
          "phonetics"
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        [
          "sound",
          "sound"
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        [
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          "quality"
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        [
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          "human"
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        [
          "voice",
          "voice"
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          "epilaryngeal"
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        "(phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed."
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        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonetics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Marvin Carpenter, The 1929 Depression: Hey! That’s Perry County!, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, page 2",
          "text": "Buttermilk also tastes different today. What do people do when they make buttermilk for the public that gives buttermilk that twang taste? Do these people put milk in an aging tank to mature like wine in a place where air and germs can't get to it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor."
      ],
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        [
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          "taste"
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        [
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          "flavor"
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      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant."
      ],
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          "annoying"
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        [
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          "recalcitrant"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant."
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        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/twæŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æŋ"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-au-twang.ogg/En-au-twang.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-au-twang.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "twăng"
    }
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sound of a tight string",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Näseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "tarab",
      "sense": "sound of a tight string",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਤਰਬ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sound of a tight string",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zbârnâit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sound of a tight string",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vibrație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sound of a tight string",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zumzet"
    }
  ],
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}

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    {
      "word": "brogue"
    },
    {
      "word": "drawl"
    },
    {
      "word": "lilt"
    },
    {
      "word": "lisp"
    }
  ],
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      "word": "twanger"
    },
    {
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    }
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        "To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
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        "To have a nasal sound."
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        "(intransitive) To have a nasal sound."
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    },
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent."
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        "(intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping."
      ],
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          "music"
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          "musical instrument"
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          "snap"
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        "(music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping."
      ],
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        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
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    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-au-twang.ogg/En-au-twang.ogg.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "twăng"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "brnknout"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "drnknout"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zadrnčet"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "drnčet"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "zupfen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "peng"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "one time only",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "pendül"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "to cause to produce this sound",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "penget"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "zbârnâi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "zumzăi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound",
      "word": "vibra"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a nasal sound",
      "word": "honottaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to have a nasal sound",
      "word": "näseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to have a nasal sound",
      "word": "nazaliza"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a trace of a regional or foreign accent",
      "word": "korostaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "music: to play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping",
      "word": "näppäillä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twang"
}

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