different between swang vs stang

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?ng, IPA^(key): /stæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English stange, partly from Old Norse st?ng; partly from Old English stæng, steng, stenge (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”); both from Proto-Germanic *stang?, *stangiz (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *steng?-, *steg?- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
2. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

     Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.

3. (archaic or obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
   • 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (Page 15)

     These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

Derived terms

• stang ball
• ride the stang

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

Verb

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

1. (dialect, rare) simple past tense of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

Anagrams

• 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

1. bar
2. rod
3. pole
4. crossbar

Inflection

Derived terms

• stangdrukken (adjective)
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

References

• “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

See also

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

Anagrams

• angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng

Noun

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

1. a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
2. rod, 3.1374 metres

Derived terms

• flaggstang
• jernstang

See also

• stong (Nynorsk)

References

• “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Verb

stang

1. past tense of stinga.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng, from Proto-Germanic *stang?.

Noun

stang f (definite singular stanga, dative stangen, definite plural stängren)

1. bar, rod, pole

Derived terms

• fällstang
• staang