Twang

Definition: Twang

Twang

Noun

1. A sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string).

2. Exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects).

Verb

1. Cause to sound with a twang; "He twanged the guitar string".

2. Sound with a twang, as of a bowstring.

3. Twitch or throb with pain.

4. Pluck, as a string of an instrument; "He twanged his bow".

5. Pronounce with a nasal twang.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Twang

Pungency

Noun: pungency, piquance, piquancy, poignancy haut-gout, strong taste, twang, race.

Stammering

Noun: inarticulateness; stammering; Verb: hesitation; Verb: impediment in one's speech; titubancy, traulism; whisper; (faint sound); lisp, drawl, tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto; (want of voice); broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.

Taste

Verb: taste, savor, smatch, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate. (savory); smack the lips.

Noun: taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish; sapor, sapidity; twang, smack, smatch; aftertaste, tang.

Crosswords: Twang

Frisian (formal, measured, stiff).

Books

• Masama: The Adventures of Twing and Twang (reference)

• Twang!: The Ultimate Book of Country Music Quotations (reference)

• Where Are They Now: Surf & Spy Guitar (Instrumental Twang Guitar Classics (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Mark Twang (reference)

• Twang Thang: Anthology (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "twang": nasal twang ♦ speak with a twang. Additional references.

Albanian

tingull (blast, noise, note, ring, sound), tingëllimë (bell, carillon, chime, clang, clicking, orotundity, ring, ringing, sonority, sound, sounding, tang, tinkle, tinkling, tolling, tone), tingëllim (bell, carillon, chime, clang, clicking, orotundity, ring, ringing, sonority, sound, sounding, tang, tinkle, tinkling, tolling, tone), piskoj telat. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقر الوتر, ‏نبض من ألم, ‏قال بخنة, ‏خنة (stew), ‏ألم حاد مفاجئ, ‏أثر ضئيل (sparkle, tincture, whisper), ‏رنين وتر, ‏رنين (chink, clang, jingle, peal, ping, resonance, resonant, ring, ringing, sound, tinkle, tone), ‏رن (chime, chink, clang, peal, ping, plunk, resonate, resound, ring, sound, strike, tinkle, toll). (various references)

Bulgarian 

говоря носово, остро дрънчене, носов говор (snuffle), носов изговор, дрънча (clank, clatter, clink, jangle, jingle, rattle, tang), дрънкам на инструмент. (various references)

Czech

nosová výslovnost, brnknutí. (various references)

Danish

nasalitet (nasal twang, nasality), nasal klang (nasal twang). (various references)

Farsi 

صدای تودماغی , صدای سیم ساز, صدای زه , صدای دنگ دنگ ایجادکردن . (various references)

Finnish

helkytys, helkytellä, helkkyä (ring, sound), helähdyttää (ring, sound). (various references)

French

ton nasillard, tinter, vibrer, son de corde pincée, pincer les cordes, nasillement, accent. (various references)

German

zupfen (pick, pluck, plunk, pull, rip, snick, stretch, tear, twitch, twitching), vibrierton, vibrieren (fluctuate, flutter, oscillate, pulsate, quiver, to oscillate, tremble, vary, vibrate, vibration), näseln (speak through smb.'s nose), klimpern (chink, clink, jangle, jingle, strum, thrum, tinkle, to chink, to jingle, to strum). (various references)

Greek 

έρρινοσ ήχοσ, έρρινοσ τόνοσ, γρατζουνίζω, τρομώδησ ήχοσ (tremolo), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, screechy, sharp, shrill, smart, trenchant), ομιλώ ερρινώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

א� פוף (grunting, nasality), צליל של מיתר, צליל ח�". (various references)

Hungarian

pengés (ringing). (various references)

Italian

vibrazione (chatter, flicker, flutter, jar, throb, vibration), vibrare (brandish, chatter, flicker, hurl, jar, oscillate, quaver, thrill, throb, vibrate), suono vibrante, suono acuto (tang), dare un suono metallico, accento nasale. (various references)

Manx

stronnaght (nasality, twang intonation), plang (twang of bow), loayrt dy stronnag (twang of person), jannoo plang (twang of bow), bwoalley plang ass (twang of bow). (various references)

Pig Latin

angtway

Portuguese

tocar mal (strum, thrum), vibrar (brandish, flap, fling, oscillate, peal, pendulate, pulsate, pulse, ring, shimmy, swing, thrill, throb, vibrate, wave), fazer ressoar, falar com tom nasal, arranhar (clapperclaw, claw, dodder, gall, graze, rase, raze, scrabble, scrape, scratch, splutter, sputter, strum, thrum). (various references)

Romanian

zbârnâit (buzzing, drone, tingle, whirring), zbârnâi (buzz, drone, hum, tingle, whirr, whiz), vorbire pe nas, vorbi pe nas (nasalize, speak through one's nose), sunet produs de o coardã, nazaliza (nasalize), fonfãi (snuffle), face sã vibreze (vibrate), fârnâi (snuffle), din-dang (ding-dong), ciupi (filch, goose, nip, pick, pinch, pit, pluck, tweak). (various references)

Russian 

резкий звенящий голос, гнусавить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvučati kao žice, zvonak zvuk, unjkati (nasalize), unjkanje (nasalization), oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant). (various references)

Spanish

timbre (bell, ding, quality, ring, timbre), tañido, sonido (beat, peal, sound, sounding), puntear (Dot, fleck, flecker, pick, plonk, pluck, stipple), punteado (dotted, Dotty, stipple), producir un sonido agudo, hablar con timbre nasal, gangueo (snuffle), estirar (crane, draw, draw out, extend, iron lightly, move out, overstretch, prick up, pull out, run the iron over, smooth back, spin out, strain, stretch, tauten, tense, tighten, tighten up, undress, wrench). (various references)

Swedish

knäppa (buckle, button, click, do up, fasten, fillip, flick, flip, knock off, plug, pot, snap, thrum, zap), klang (clang, resonance, ring, sound, tone), dallra (quiver, shiver, tremble, vibrate). (various references)

Thai

สำเนียงขึ้นจมูก (nasal twang). (various references)

Turkish

tel sesi, tıngırtı (clink, clinking, jangle, rattle, strum, tang, tinkling), tıngırdamak (clang, clink, jangle, rattle, ting, tinkle), genzinden söylemek, genizden çıkmak, genizden çıkan ses, çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

різкий звук (jangle, jar, phit, scream, skirl, snap), звучати (blow, chime, clink, resound, sound, tune), бренькати (strum). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nói giọng mũi. (various references)

increpa, increpabant, increpabat, increpabit, increpabo, increpandum, increpans, increpantibus, increpare, increparet, increpasti, increpat, increpaveris, increpaverunt, increpavit, increpem, increpet, increpueris, increpuerit, increpui, increpuisti, increpuit, increscat. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "twang": twanged, twanger, twangers, twangier, twangiest, twanging, twangle, twangled, twangler, twanglers, twangles, twangling, twangs, twangy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Twang" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chwang, Dwangwa, taang, tangt, tawn, tawne, thang, Tiwag, trang, Tsanga, twag, twan, twane, twangy, twant, twean, twen, tweng, twing, twingy, twngo, twun. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gnat, gnaw, tang, want.

-2 letters: ant, awn, gan, gat, nag, naw, tag, tan, taw, twa, wag, wan, wat.

-3 letters: ag, an, at, aw, na, ta.

+1 letter: tawing, twangs, twangy.

+2 letters: batwing, dawting, outgnaw, ringtaw, tawsing, thawing, twanged, twanger, twangle, wafting, waiting, wantage, wanting, wasting.

+3 letters: awaiting, outgnawn, outgnaws, ringtaws, strawing, swathing, swatting, sweating, thrawing, trawling, twangers, twangier, twanging, twangled, twangler, twangles, tweaking, waisting, waitings, waltzing, wantages, watching, watering, wattling, wrathing.

+4 letters: downstage, newsagent, nighthawk, nightwear, outgnawed, outlawing, tallowing, thwacking, thwarting, twaddling, twangiest, twanglers, twangling, twattling, upwafting, wagonette, waistings, wantoning, warstling, waterings, wauchting, waughting, wrastling, wreathing.