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Definition of Twanging
1. twang [v] - See also: twang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twanging
Literary usage of Twanging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"The Mayor was non-plussed—and the coal man went twanging on his ways. The officer
could no more stand his logic than his opponent could his horn. ..."
2. Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid, Arthur Golding, William Henry Denham Rouse (1904)
"360 Upon the ende of these same wordes the twanging of the string In letting of
the Arrow flie was clearly heard : which thing Made every one save Niobe ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"twanging. To go off twanging, ¡. e. well or, as we now say, swimmingly. An old
fool to be gull'd thus ! had he died As I resolve to do, not to be alter'd, ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of by Oliver Goldsmith (1837)
"In shrill-ton'd murmurs sung the twanging bow." Many beauties of the same kind
are scattered through Homer, Pindar,and Theocritus, ..."
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