different between spag vs spang

English

Etymology

Clipping of spaghetti.

Noun

spag (uncountable)

1. (informal) spaghetti

Related terms

• spag bol

Anagrams

• A-GPS, AGPs, GPAs, PASG, gaps, gasp

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spa?]

Noun

spag (nominative plural spags)

1. spark

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English spang (“a small piece of ornamental metal; spangle; small ornament; a bowl or cup”), likely from Middle Dutch spange (“buckle, clasp”) or Old English spang (“buckle, clasp”).

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Noun

spang (plural spangs)

2. (obsolete) A shiny ornament or object; a spangle

Derived terms

• spangle

Verb

spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. To set with bright points: star or spangle.
2. To hitch; fasten.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (intransitive, of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report
   • 1918, Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail

     How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!

Adverb

spang (not comparable)

1. (dated) Suddenly; slap, smack.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:

     And I didn't stop until I found myself spang in the middle of the Musée de Cluny, clutching the rack.

Etymology 3

Probably from spring (verb) or spank (verb) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (intransitive, dialect, Britain, Scotland) To leap; spring.
   • a. 1758, Allan Ramsay, epistle to Robert Yarde

     But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.

2. (transitive, dialect, Britain, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.

Noun

spang (plural spangs)

1. (Scotland) A bound or spring; a leap.

Etymology 4

See span

Noun

spang (plural spangs)

1. (Scotland) A span.

References

• spang in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• spang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Pangs, pangs

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sp?ng, cf. Swedish spång. See also German Spange (clasp). Probably related to span from Proto-Germanic *spannan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sp????], [sp????] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -á??

Noun

spang f (definite singular spanga, plural spinger, definite plural spingren)

1. a simple one-man bridge, log bridge, footbridge

References