nang
/næŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A metal bulb filled with nitrous oxide gas, inhaled for its disassociative effects, normally intended as a propellant for whipped cream.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang
name
A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Example Sentences
- "I reckon the thing that brings on a trip the quickest is definitly^([sic]) a nang (nitrous oxide bulb) while listening to REALLY intense music"
- ""helicopters" these days refers to those silly hats with propellers on top, which come with a free ounce of smack at any local K-mart.^([sic]) Y'know, next to the nangs (or bulbs - nitrous oxide for whipped cream)."
- "That was well nang!"
- "The wings were seriously a peng ting. The chips were nang. Burger was sick – the assembly was on point. The fillet was a serious ting – the thickness was there. Bossman did well."
- "In 1959, I returned to Tibet to take part in the nationality reformation movement. Later, I also worked as chairman of the women's association in Lang County."
- "Nang county is the name given to the present administrative division of E Dakpo, the principal gateway to the sacred mountain of Tsari, and the region through which the Brahmaputra River cuts its way through an unnavigable 33 km horse-shoe gorge as it flows towards Longpo and Kongpo."
Etymology
Multicultural London English, from Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole nyanga, potentially from West African languages, such as Mende (Sierra Leone) nyanga (“ostentation; showing off”) or Hausa yanga (“boastfulness”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /næŋ/
- British English: /næŋ/
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- Slang
- British usage