to stang
9.9
To prick the skin sharply, as when a nettle or thorn touches you
- verb
- Archaic
:
picar
- The nettles in the garden will stang anyone who brushes against them.
But this this can sting quite a bit.
- But this this can sting quite a bit.
- And then I was hiking in a park and a wasp stung me here.
- I'm like, it's so like when I was little, I got stung by a bee.
- And then you're up in this tree getting swarmed by sweat bees, getting stung by Wasps.
- Would you rather be stung by a warrior wasp or a duck billed platypus?
- You know, I think it's in part from getting stung as a kid and that other experience that I had.
- It stopped for a second and then as one, the bees went to my ankles and they begin to sting me intensely through the socks.
- They don't want to look at their role in the failure to accept that they're, you know, not capable enough or whatever yet, but that that really stings.
- I know RIP though that bee that died because they stung someone or did they just get put in hospital?
- He like, man, she stung them.
- When you start getting lots of livestock, you also get the mosquitoes to sting the OR bite the livestock instead of you.
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Examples
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After falling into the bushes, I could feel the thorns stang my skin sharply.
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Be careful when walking through the fields, as the thorns might stang your legs.
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But this this can sting quite a bit.
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OK, there something fizzed in my mouth and like, stung my gums.
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And that doesn't mean that you're not going to be stung when they exit.
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And that doesn't mean that you're not going to be stung when they exit.
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Etymology
Stang in dialect comes from the old verb sting, which means 'to prick' or 'to hurt with a sharp point', so to stang someone or something is to prick or sting it sharply, like a nettle or thorn.