wang

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: wăng; IPA^(key): /wæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

Onomatopoeic.

wang (plural wangs)

1. Alternative spelling of whang.

wang (third-person singular simple present wangs, present participle wanging, simple past and past participle wanged)

1. (transitive) To batter; to clobber; to conk.
2. (transitive) To throw hard.
   • 1993, Tom McNally, “Panfish on Flies and Bugs”, in The Complete Book of Fly Fishing‎^[1], 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283:

     Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.

   • 1998, Barry Hines, “The Football Match”, in James Riordan, editor, Football Stories‎^[2], Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, "wanged"%7C"wanging" page 36:

     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.

   • 2009, Mark Millhone, “Saltville”, in The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir‎^[3], Rodale, →ISBN, "wanged"%7C"wanging"+-"wanging'ombe" page 132:

     After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.

Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang (“stour, thick slice", also "thong”), from thwang (“thong”). See thong. Compare wong.

• whang

wang (plural wangs)

1. (colloquial) Penis.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five‎^[4], New York: Dial, published 2005, pages 168–169:

     Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.

• See Thesaurus:penis

• AgNW, Ngwa, g'wan, gawn, gnaw, gwan

From Dutch wang.

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wang (plural wange)

1. cheek

From Middle Dutch wange, from Old Dutch *wanga, from Proto-West Germanic *wangā, from Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (“neck, cheek”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑŋ/

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• Hyphenation: wang
• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

wang f (plural wangen, diminutive wangetje n)

1. cheek

• appelwang
• roodwangara
• wangzak
• witwanghoenderkoet
• witwangstern

• Afrikaans: wang

wang

1. boat

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwaŋ/ [ˈwaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: wang

wang (uncountable)

1. nonstandard form of uang (“money”)

From either Teochew 王 (uang⁵, “king”) or Mandarin 王 (wáng, “king”).

wang (plural wang-wang)

1. (uncommon) synonym of istana (“palace”)

• “wang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

wang

1. boat

Possibly from Hokkien 圓 / 圆 (oân, “round; currency”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaŋ/ [ˈwaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ

wang (Jawi spelling واڠ)

1. money
2. cash

• Indonesian: uang, oewang (1901–1947)
  • → Hokkien: 鈁 / 钫 (hoáng)

• duit

• “wang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

wang

1. romanization of ᠸᠠᠩ

wang

1. nonstandard spelling of wāng
2. nonstandard spelling of wáng
3. nonstandard spelling of wǎng
4. nonstandard spelling of wàng

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Borrowed from Old Javanese wwaṅ (“people, person”). Cognate with Javanese wong.

• IPA^(key): /waːŋ/
• Hyphenation: wang

wang

1. people; person
2. human being

• ugang

wang

1. boat

• wong

From Proto-West Germanic *wang, from Proto-Germanic *wangaz. Doublet of wange.

• IPA^(key): /wɑnɡ/, [wɑŋɡ]

wang m (nominative plural wangas)

1. (poetic) a flat surface: plain, field, ground
   • 1963, Paull Franklin Baum, Riddle 11, Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book

     sæs me sind ealle flodas on fæðmum / ⁊ þas foldan bearm grene wongas

     All seas and waters are in my embraces, and the bosom of earth and the green fields.

2. (anatomy) the side of the face, cheek

   Synonyms: ċēace, hlēor, wange

Strong a-stem:

• neorxnawang
• wangbeard
• wangstede
• wangtōþ
• wangturf

• Middle English: wang, wong
  • English: wong
  • Scots: wang, wan, wong

wang

1. boat

From Old Frisian *wange, from Proto-Germanic *wangô.

wang n (plural wangen, diminutive wankje)

1. cheek

• wangga
• wango ^[1]
• wangò ^[2]

wang

1. cheek

• Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124