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tang

/tæŋ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
  2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
  3. A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
  4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
  5. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
  6. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  7. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
  8. 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.
  9. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
  10. Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
  11. The vagina.
  12. Intercourse with a woman

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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