dang

• enPR: dăng, IPA^(key): /dæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

c. 1797,[1] a minced oath of damn.

dang (third-person singular simple present dangs, present participle danging, simple past and past participle danged)

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

dang

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

dang (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

• darn, durn

dang (plural dangs)

1. (euphemistic) A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.

   I don't give a dang.

2. (humorous, rare) A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.
   • 2006 October 3, Lute Olson; David Fisher, Lute!: The Seasons of My Life, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4:

     People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the Hoover Dang. But believe me, that emotion is there. I get just as excited and angry and tangled up inside as everyone else; the difference is that generally I show it through my […]

   • 2009, Chuck Holton, Melt Down, Multnomah, →ISBN, page 194:

     “Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'Hoover Dang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good. “No, honey. You don't have to call it that. But we better run. I don't want you kids to miss this.” She giggled as her two daughters caught up, […]

See ding.

dang

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of ding

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dang (third-person singular simple present dangs, present participle danging, simple past and past participle danged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dash.

   (Can we date this quote?), Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander‎:

   Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage,
   Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.

• “dang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• dang at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “dang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

• N.D. Ga., NDGA, gDNA, gdna

A lengthening of danë, Gheg variant of darë. Compare Old High German zanga (“tongs”).

dang f

1. bite, nip

• darë

Borrowed from Burmese တိုင်း (tuing:).

dang

1. to measure

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

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dang

1. full

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎, pages 13-36

dang

1. second-person singular imperative of dangen

dang

1. water

• Manam organized phonology data (2011, SIL)

dang (dang⁵ / dang⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄤ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of dāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of dǎng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dàng.

• 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 Haida dáng.

• IPA^(key): /d̥aŋ/

dang

1. you

   haaw-gwaa dang qaaguhla-gii? (in songs or storytelling)

   /haːw.ɡ̊waː d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhla.ɡ̊i/

   there-(question) you leave-(perfect tense)

   Have you left?

   kuu-gu dang qaaguhl-gii? (in speech)

   /kʰːu.ɡ̊u d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhl.ɡ̊i/

   there-(question) you leave-(perfect tense)

   Have you left?

• John Enrico, Northern Haida Songs

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *taang (“to extend, stretch”); cognate with Khmer ត្រដាង (trɑdaang, “to stretch out limbs”).

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

dang

1. (of limbs) to stretch out

• dạng (“to stretch out”)