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English

Etymology

From Middle English spangel (“a small piece of ornamental metal; a small ornament”); equivalent to spang +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spæ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Noun

spangle (plural spangles)

1. A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
2. Any small sparkling object.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, “Of and to the Queene”, lines 35--38:

     Thus, in a starry night, fond children cry
     For the rich spangles that adorn the sky,
     Which, though they shine for ever fixed there,
     With light and influence relieve us here.

3. The butterfly, Papilio demoleus, family Papilionidae, of Asia.
4. (obsolete, slang) Money. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)

1. (intransitive) To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
2. (transitive) To fix spangles to; bespangle; to adorn with stars

Derived terms

• bespangle
• spangled
• unspangled

Further reading

• spangle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pangles, Spangel, legspan

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

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