wang
/ˈwæŋ/
wang is the alternative spelling of whang.
Verb
wang (third-person singular simple present wangs, present participle wanging, simple past and past participle wanged)
- To batter; to clobber; to conk.
- To throw hard.
- Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.1993, Tom McNally, “Panfish on Flies and Bugs”, in The Complete Book of Fly Fishing, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283
- He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.1998, Barry Hines, “The Football Match”, in James Riordan, editor, Football Stories, Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 36
Meaning of whang
Noun (1)
whang (plural whangs)
Noun (2)
whang (plural whangs)
Noun
wang (plural wangs)
- Penis.
- Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, pages 168–169
- Synonyms:
- anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Wang
IPA/wæŋ/
Wang (plural Wangs)
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Wang
IPA/wæŋ/
Wang (plural Wangs)
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Wang
IPA/wæŋ/
Wang
- A Meitei surname from Manipuri, variant of Wangjam, Wangkheimayum, Wangkheimayum, and Wangmayum.
Synonyms of wang
Forms of wang
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wangs |
| alternative form | whang |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wangs |
| present participle | wanging |
| past participle | wanged |
| past | wanged |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wangs |
Origin of wang
Onomatopoeic.
Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang, a dialectal form of thong (“strip of leather”). Compare wong.
From various romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 王 (Wáng) or 汪 (Wāng). Doublet of Wong, Heng, Ong, and Vuong. As a Korean surname, from 왕 (wang), from the above.
Phrases with wang
Words that rhyme with wang
Questions about wang
- What does wang mean?
- Wang means to batter; to clobber; to conk.
- What is wang the alternative spelling of?
- Wang is the alternative spelling of whang.
- What part of speech is wang?
- Wang can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wang?
- Wang is pronounced /ˈwæŋ/.
- What is the past tense of wang?
- The past tense of wang is wanged.
Words near wang in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wang (page history and authors); Wang (page history and authors); whang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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