Meanings
verbtwank (third-person singular simple present twanks, present participle twanking, simple past and past participle twanked)
present singular third person twanks · participle present twanking · participle past twanked · past twanked
- datedtransitiveTo cause to make a sharp twanging sound.
London has the privilege of disturbing a whole street for an hour together, with the twanking of a brass kettle or frying-pan.
1711 December 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 18, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 251; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC
nountwank (plural twanks)
plural twanks
- A sharp, twanging sound.
a twank of the lock behind you
1847, William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets
Origin
Imitative. Compare English twang, twangle.
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Rhymes with twank
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Chicago
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