different between swang vs nautanki

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sw?ng, IPA^(key): /swæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Noun

swang (plural swangs)

1. A swamp.

Etymology 2

Verb

swang (third-person singular simple present swangs, present participle swanging, simple past and past participle swanged)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To steer one's vehicle from side to side while driving.
   • 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge:

     Turn on my blinker light and then I swang it slow

   • 2006, Trae (featuring Pimp C and Big Hawk), "Swang", Restless:

     I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left

   • 2010, G. Washington, Karma from the Cradle to the Street, Xlibris (2010), ?ISBN, page 118:

     Caine pulled off burning rubber and swanging side to side.

2. (archaic and dialectal) simple past tense of swing. Now largely replaced by swung.

Anagrams

• gawns, gnaws, wangs

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ?????? (nau?a?k?), from the title of a play based on a Multani folktale, ‘The Musical Drama of Queen Nautanki’.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???ta?ki/

Noun

nautanki (plural nautankis)

1. A type of Indian folk theatre, based on folklore and mythological dramas with interludes of song and dance. [from 20th c.]
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 25:

     ‘Let your men make sure that this is done when no marriage party or nautanki troupe is in the vicinity.’