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whang

/ˈwæŋ/

whang verb: to make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.

Verb

whang (third-person singular simple present whangs, present participle whanging, simple past and past participle whanged)

  1. To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
    • The holder of the torch grunted, and (after pausing a second at B.'s bed to inspect a picture of perfect innocence) banged out through the door which whanged to behind him...1922, E. E. Cummings, The Enormous room
  2. (informal, transitive) To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
    • I don't know how long it might have gone on if Grandfather hadn't lost his temper. He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump.1993, Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton (illustrator), The Fields of Home, page 31
  3. (Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, slang) To whack or beat.
    • I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.
    • "[…] My God, Joolby, I even sang 'Dreaming of Thee' at a saturnalia called a 'Penny Reading' there, simply because the young lady who whanged the piano had a job of feeding a machine in the drying-room."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  4. (Scotland) To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop.

Noun (1)

whang (plural whangs)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) A blow; a whack.
    • "Now I suppose you never take any particular notice of cats, 'Orace?"
      "Can't say as I do. Except now and then to have a whang at one."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  2. (Scotland, UK, colloquial, dialectal) A large piece or slice; a chunk.
  3. (US, dated, dialectal) A house-cleaning party.

Noun (2)

whang (plural whangs)

  1. (UK, US, dated, dialectal, informal) A leather thong.
  2. (slang) The penis.

Proper noun capitalized: Whang

Whang (plural Whangs)

  1. A surname.

whang meaning in Urdu

whang in Urdu

گھونسا, ضرب, دھکم پیل کرنا, پٹائی کرنا

Synonyms of whang

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Forms of whang

Verb
third-person singular presentwhangs
present participlewhanging
past participlewhanged
pastwhanged
Noun
pluralwhangs
alternative formwang
Proper noun
pluralWhangs

Origin of whang

Imitative. Compare wang.

Debuccalized (/θw/ > /hw/) from Scots thwang, cognate to thong.

From Chinese 黃 /黄 (huáng) (also Mandarin 黃 /黄 (huáng), Chinese 王 (wáng), Korean 황 (hwang), or Korean 왕 (wang)

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Words that rhyme with whang

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Questions about whang

What does whang mean?
Whang means to make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
What is whang in Urdu?
Whang in Urdu is گھونسا, ضرب, دھکم پیل کرنا. See Whang meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is whang?
Whang can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce whang?
Whang is pronounced /ˈwæŋ/.
What is the past tense of whang?
The past tense of whang is whanged.

Words near whang in the dictionary

  1. whampees
  2. Whampoa
  3. whams
  4. whanau
  5. whanaus
  6. whang
  7. Whang Ho
  8. whang leather
  9. whang leathers
  10. whang-doodle
  11. whang-doodles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whang (page history and authors); Whang (page history and authors); whang (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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