whang

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A blow; a whack. colloquial,dialectal
    — "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."
  2. A leather thong. UK,US,dated,dialectal,informal
  3. A large piece or slice; a chunk. Scotland,UK,colloquial,dialectal
  4. The penis. slang
  5. A house-cleaning party. US,dated,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
    — 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...
  2. To throw with a rapid slamming motion. informal,transitive
    — 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.
  3. To whack or beat. Scotland,UK,US,dialectal,slang
    — I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.
  4. To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop. Scotland

词形变化

whangs present,singular,third-person whanging participle,present whanged participle,past whanged past whangs plural whangs plural wang alternative

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
Imitative. Compare wang.
词源 2
Debuccalized (/θw/ > /hw/) from Scots thwang, cognate to thong.
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