different between flange vs blancmange

English

Etymology

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Old French flanche (“flank, side”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /flænd?/

Noun

flange (plural flanges)

1. An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
2. The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
3. (role-playing games) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
   • 1998: Mr MI Pennington, Can the Players be Trusted? on rec.games.frp.live-action [1] [The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.
   • 2007: balor, Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7 [2] 'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'
4. (vulgar slang) A vulva.
   • 2001: tedfat, Flange!!!! in alt.society.nottingham [3]

     I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.

   • 2003: Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets [4]

     'God, she's got a tight flange!' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.

5. (rare, humorous) The collective noun for a group of baboons.
   • 1980s (first use), Rowan Atkinson - Not the Nine O'clock News
   • 2006, Rick Crosier - Getting Away with Murder

     (I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.)

6. The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.

Synonyms

• (collective noun for a group of baboons) troop, congress

Derived terms

• flange greaser
• flange lubricator
• flange oiler

Translations

Verb

flange (third-person singular simple present flanges, present participle flanging, simple past and past participle flanged)

1. (intransitive) To be bent into a flange.
2. (transitive) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
3. (transitive, sound engineering) To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.

Anagrams

• fangle

Danish

Etymology

From English flange.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flan?sj?/, [?fl????]

Noun

flange c (singular definite flangen, plural indefinite flanger)

1. flange (external or internal rib or rim)

Inflection

Italian

Alternative forms

• flangie (misspelling)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -and?e

Noun

flange f pl

1. plural of flangia

English

Alternative forms

• (historical): blancmanger

Etymology

From Middle English blancmanger, blomanger, from Old French blanc mangier (“white food”). The pudding evolved from the chicken dish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bl??m?n(d)?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bl??m?n(d)?/

Noun

blancmange (countable and uncountable, plural blancmanges)

1. A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.
2. (historical) A dish, eaten in the Middle Ages, generally consisting of chicken (or sometimes capon or fish), milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar.

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Blancmange”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 900, column 3.