twang

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• /ˈtwæŋ/ without æ-raising
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• [ˈthwæŋ] without æ-raising
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• Canada, US: /ˈtweɪ̯ŋ/
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• Canada, US: [ˈthweɪ̯ŋ] ~ /ˈtwɛ̃ŋ/
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• Canada, US: [ˈthwɛ̃ŋ]
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• rhymes with -æŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: T W AA1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”) (whence modern English twinge), from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”).

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: brnknutí — sound of a tight string
• German: Näseln — sound of a tight string
• Punjabi: ਤਰਬ (tarab) — sound of a tight string
• Romanian: zbârnâit — sound of a tight string
• Romanian: vibrație — sound of a tight string
• Romanian: zumzet — sound of a tight string
• Telugu: టంకారము (ṭaṅkāramu) — sound of a tight string
• Czech: huhňání — nasal speech
• Czech: brnknout — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Czech: drnknout — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Czech: zadrnčet — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Czech: drnčet — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• German: zupfen — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Hungarian: peng — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Hungarian: pendül — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Hungarian: penget — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Romanian: zbârnâi — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Romanian: zumzăi — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Romanian: vibra — to produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound
• Czech: huhňat — to have a nasal sound
• Finnish: honottaa — to have a nasal sound
• German: näseln — to have a nasal sound
• Romanian: nazaliza — to have a nasal sound
• Finnish: korostaa — to have a trace of a regional or foreign accent
• Finnish: näppäillä — music: to play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping