[
UK
/twˈæŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtwɑŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtwɑŋ/ ]
VERB
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pluck (strings of an instrument)
He twanged his bow - pronounce with a nasal twang
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cause to sound with a twang
He twanged the guitar string - twitch or throb with pain
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sound with a twang
the bowstring was twanging
NOUN
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
How To Use twang In A Sentence
- Wrapped in slick vocal layering and multi-tracked veneer, the disc is more upbeat than previous records and features an old-country twang.
- She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below.
- The twang of a guitar string resounded periodically, but never a song.
- But at least she's kept her nasal twang, eh? The Sun
- By way of contrast, Mojo Box represents a return to form: a lean, dandy album of greasy stomps, twangy guitars, and good songs.
- The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
- At the very least you know that GRRM will be there and if you ply him with drinks and plunk his magic twanger, you just might be able to wrestle some info out of him. Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle
- Her voice had a faint American or Canadian twang.
- Look at Mengelberg, look at Furtwängler, and look at the rest of the Mitteleuropa-trained composers in the past one hundred years. Mengelberg's Mahler
- As he exhaled, Erik let his arrow fly with a sharp twang of the string, the sound echoed thirty times over as the rest of the cadets fired.
