hung

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)
2. participlepastproscribedsimple past and past participle of hang (in any sense)

   A MURDERER HUNG IN TIME SAVES NINE.

   1884 April 12, Harper’s Weekly. […], volume XXVIII, number 1425, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 237

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   They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereon Judas hung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country.

   1731, John Taperell, A New Miscellany: Containing the Art of Conversation, and Several Other Subjects, page 6

   I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would have hung him on the firſt tree.

   1795, Hugh Brackenridge, chapter VIII, in Incidents of the Insurrection in the Weſtern Parts of Pennſylvania In the Year 1794, volume I, Philadelphia: John M‘Culloch, page 55

comparative more hung · superlative most hung

1. not comparableusuallySuspended by hanging.
2. not comparableusuallyHaving hanging additions or appendages.
3. not comparableusuallylawOf a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
4. not comparableusuallyOf a legislature, lacking a majority political party.

   hung parliament

5. colloquialnot comparableusuallycomputingOf a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
6. colloquialnot comparableusuallyslightly vulgarHaving a large penis (often well hung).

   Synonyms: macrophallic

plural Hungs

1. A surname.