tang

• IPA^(key): /tæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

From Middle English tang (“serpent's tongue", "extension of blade”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Old Dutch tanger (“sharp", "tart", "pinching”)

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tang (plural tangs)

1. (obsolete) tongue
   • 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,

     Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?

2. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
   • 1904, O. Henry, "The Missing Chord"

     The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.

3. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.

   Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

4. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
   • Fuller

     Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.

   • Jeffrey

     a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics

   • 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "At Sunset Time"

     What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?

5. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
6. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
7. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
8. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
9. Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
10. A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
11. (shuffleboard) A shuffleboard paddle.

• bite
• piquancy
• spiciness

• blandness
• dullness

• (shuffleboard): biscuit
• Tang (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

imitative

tang (plural tangs)

1. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang

tang (third-person singular simple present tangs, present participle tanging, simple past and past participle tanged)

1. (dated, beekeeping) 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.[1][2]
2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.

   Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang

tang (plural tangs)

1. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)

From poontang by shortening

tang (plural tangs)

1. (vulgar slang) The vagina
   • 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 9,

     The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]

2. (vulgar slang) intercourse with a woman

• tang at OneLook Dictionary Search
• tang in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• Gant, Gnat, gnat

• IPA^(key): /taŋ/

tang

1. sea

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List

From Old Norse tǫng.

• IPA^(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

tang c (singular definite tangen, plural indefinite tænger)

1. tongs
2. forceps

From Old Norse þang.

• IPA^(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

tang c (singular definite tangen, not used in plural form)

1. seaweed

From Middle Dutch tanghe, from Old Dutch tanga, from Proto-Germanic *tangō.

• IPA^(key): /tɑŋ/

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tang f (plural tangen, diminutive tangetje n)

1. pliers
2. tongs
3. (especially the diminutive) pincers, tweezers
4. (figuratively) shrew, bitch

• kniptang
• krultang
• nijptang
• pijptang
• waterpomptang

tang (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. groat

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From English tongue.

tang

1. tongue

tang ?

1. side

tang

1. water

tang

1. Nonstandard spelling of tāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of táng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǎng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tàng.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Malagasy tandraka

tang

1. tenrec

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

From Old Norse tǫng

tang f or m (definite singular tanga or tangen, indefinite plural tenger, definite plural tengene)

1. (a pair of) pliers, pincers
2. (a pair of) forceps

• knipetang

• tong (Nynorsk)

From Old Norse þang, compare with German Tang

tang m or n (definite singular tangen or tanget, uncountable)

1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

• “tang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse þang

tang m or n (definite singular tangen or tanget, uncountable)

1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

• “tang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Malagasy tandraka

tang

1. tenrec

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

From English tongue.

tang

1. tongue

From English tank.

tang

1. tank

From English tongue.

tang

1. (anatomy) tongue

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taːŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 喪.

tang

1. (formal) funeral

From English tangent.

tang

1. (trigonometry) tangent

• tan
• côtang
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