whang
/ˈwæŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop.
Example Sentences
- "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..."
- "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."
- "I ought to have whanged him one in the eye."
- ""[…] My God, Joolby, I even sang 'Dreaming of Thee' at a saturnalia called a 'Penny Reading' there, simply because the young lady who whanged the piano had a job of feeding a machine in the drying-room.""
- ""Now I suppose you never take any particular notice of cats, 'Orace?" "Can't say as I do. Except now and then to have a whang at one.""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: thwang, 黃, 王, 황, 왕
Usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Colloquial
- Dated