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spag
English
Etymology
Clipping of spaghetti.
Noun
spag (uncountable)
- (informal) spaghetti
Related terms
- spag bol
Anagrams
- A-GPS, AGPs, GPAs, PASG, gaps, gasp
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [spa?]
Noun
spag (nominative plural spags)
- spark
Declension
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spang
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”).
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
spang (plural spangs)
- (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)
- To set with bright points: star or spangle.
- To hitch; fasten.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.
Verb
spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)
- (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!
- 1918, Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail
Adverb
spang (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
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)
- (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.
- a. 1758, Allan Ramsay, epistle to Robert Yarde
- (transitive, dialect, Britain, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.
Noun
spang (plural spangs)
- (Scotland) A bound or spring; a leap.
Etymology 4
See span
Noun
spang (plural spangs)
- (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)
- a simple one-man bridge, log bridge, footbridge
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