whang

present singular third person whangs · participle present whanging · participle past whanged · past 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. informaltransitiveTo 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

   Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash

3. ScotlandUKUSdialectalslangTo whack or beat.

   I ought to have whanged him one in the eye.

   1 more example

   "[…] 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 [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

4. ScotlandTo slice, especially into large pieces; to chop.

plural whangs

1. colloquialdialectalA 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 [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

2. ScotlandUKcolloquialdialectalA large piece or slice; a chunk.
3. USdateddialectalA house-cleaning party.

plural whangs · alternative wang

1. UKUSdateddialectalinformalA leather thong.
2. slangThe penis.

plural Whangs

1. A surname.