wang

• IPA^(key): /wæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

From Middle English wange, from Old English wange (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenk-, *wek- (“to be bent or bowed”). Cognate with Scots wan, wang (“cheek”), West Frisian wang (“cheek”), Dutch wang (“cheek”), German Wange (“cheek”), Icelandic vanga (“cheek”), Gothic *𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍉 (*waggō) in 𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (waggareis, “pillow, cushion”), Italian guancia (“cheek”).

wang (plural wangs)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The cheek; the jaw.
   • 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Our manciple I hope he will be dead,

     So workes aye the wanges in his head:

     And therefore is I come, and eke Alein,

     To grind our corn and carry it home again:

     I pray you speed us hence as well ye may.

1. To continue to talk about a specific subject.

• wangtooth

• wanger

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, Second Edition 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, Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, "wanged" 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, Rodale, →ISBN, "wanged" 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.

• whang

• IPA^(key): /wæŋ/, /wɒŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ, -ɒŋ

wang (plural wangs)

1. (colloquial) Penis.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 5, pp. 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-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

• wangzak

• Afrikaans: wang

From Malay wang (“money”).

wang

1. (informal) Informal spelling of uang (“money”).

From Min Nan 王 (uang⁵, “king”).

wang

1. palace, king's residence.

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

• IPA^(key): [waŋ]

wang

1. into

wang

1. to enter

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Probably borrowed from Chinese Hokkien 環／环 (hoân, “round”) or Hakka 環／环 (vàn, “round”).

wang (Jawi spelling واڠ‎, informal 1st possessive wangku, 2nd possessive wangmu, 3rd possessive wangnya)

1. money
2. cash

• Indonesian: uang
• → Min Nan: 鈁／钫

• 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.

• 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.

• Learned borrowing from Old Javanese wwaṅ (“people, person”). Cognate with Javanese wong.

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

wang

1. people; person
2. human being

• ugang

• wong

From Proto-Germanic *wangaz.

• IPA^(key): /wɑnɡ/, [wɑŋɡ]

wang m (nominative plural wangas)

1. (poetic) 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.

• neorxnawang

• English: wong

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

wang n (plural wangen, diminutive wankje)

1. cheek

• wangga

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