tang

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæŋ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English tang (“serpent's tongue", "extension of blade”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Old Dutch tanger (“sharp", "tart", "pinching”)

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Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. (obsolete) tongue
    • 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
      Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
  2. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
    • 1904, O. Henry, "The Missing Chord"
      The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
  3. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
    Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  4. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
    • Fuller
      Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
    • Jeffrey
      a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
    • 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "At Sunset Time"
      What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?
  5. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
  6. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
  7. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
  8. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
  9. Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
  10. A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
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Etymology 2

imitative

Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang

Verb

tang (third-person singular simple present tangs, present participle tanging, simple past and past participle tanged)

  1. (dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.[1][2]
  2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
    Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.

Etymology 3

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang

Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)

Translations

Etymology 4

From poontang by shortening

Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. (vulgar slang) The vagina
    • 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 9,
      The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]
  2. (vulgar slang) intercourse with a woman

References

  • tang at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • tang in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  1. ↑ Eva Crane, The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting, Taylor & Francis (1999), →ISBN, page 239.
  2. ↑ Hilda M. Ransome, The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, Courier Dover Publications (2004), →ISBN, page 225.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tǫng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

Noun

tang c (singular definite tangen, plural indefinite tænger)

  1. tongs
  2. forceps
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

Noun

tang c (singular definite tangen, not used in plural form)

  1. seaweed

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tanghe, from Old Dutch tanga, from Proto-Germanic *tangō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

tang f (plural tangen, diminutive tangetje n)

  1. pliers
  2. tongs
  3. (especially the diminutive) pincers, tweezers
  4. (figuratively) shrew, bitch

Derived terms

Estonian

Noun

tang (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. groat

Declension

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Kriol

Etymology

From English tongue.

Noun

tang

  1. tongue

Kurdish

Noun

tang ?

  1. side

Kusunda

Noun

tang

  1. water

Mandarin

Romanization

tang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of táng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tàng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Malagasy tandraka

Noun

tang

  1. tenrec

Reference

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tǫng

Noun

tang f, m (definite singular tanga or tangen, indefinite plural tenger, definite plural tengene)

  1. (a pair of) pliers, pincers
  2. (a pair of) forceps
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þang, compare with German Tang

Noun

tang m (definite singular tangen, uncountable)
tang n (definite singular tanget, uncountable)

  1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þang

Noun

tang m (definite singular tangen, uncountable)
tang n (definite singular tanget, uncountable)

  1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

References

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From Malagasy tandraka

Noun

tang

  1. tenrec

Reference

  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English tongue.

Noun

tang

  1. tongue

Etymology 2

From English tank.

Noun

tang

  1. tank

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English tongue.

Noun

tang

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 喪.

Noun

tang

  1. (formal) funeral

Etymology 2

Noun

tang

  1. (trigonometry) tangent
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