different between bhang vs whang

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi ???? / Urdu ?????? (bh??g).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?/, /ba?/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bhang (uncountable)

1.  (India, Kenya, Uganda, else slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36:

     Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.

Irish

Noun

bhang

1. Lenited form of bang.

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Imitative. Compare wang.

Verb

whang (third-person singular simple present whangs, present participle whanging, simple past and past participle whanged)

1. (chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
2. (informal, transitive) To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
   • 1993, Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton (illustrator), The Fields of Home, page 31:

     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. (US, Scotland, Britain, dialect, slang) To whack or beat.

   I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.

4. (Scotland) To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop.

Noun

whang (plural whangs)

1. (dialect, colloquial) A blow; a whack.
2. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, colloquial) A large piece or slice; a chunk.
3. (US, dialect, dated) A house-cleaning party.

Etymology 2

Debuccalized (/?w/ > /hw/) from Scots thwang, cognate to thong.

Alternative forms

• wang

Pronunciation

Noun

whang (plural whangs)

1. (Britain, US, dialect, informal, dated) A leather thong.
2. (slang) A penis.

See also

• whangee

Anagrams

• Hwang