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🗣️ A nasal accent 🎸 A sharp sound 🗣️ To speak nasally 🎸 To pluck sharply
to twang

to twang

1 8.0
To speak with a nasal sound that shows a regional accent
  • verb
  • /twæŋ/
translation icon : pronunciar con voz nasal
  • She takes a big bite out of her sandwich, twangs the remote to start the video, and smiles excitedly at hearing the overture to "Tomorrow" begin over the credit sequence to "Annie," her favorite musical.

Examples

  • He twanged the words with a distinct nasal tone, making his speech sound unique.

  • Who didn't care if you couldn't twang the ukulele, croon like Rudy Vallee.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • "Yahoo," he's squealing over the mic, which echoes and twangs.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • When she sang, her voice twanged with a high-pitched quality that was hard to forget.

  • The comedian twanged his voice to exaggerate the humor in his story, making everyone laugh.

Synonyms

to nasalize
vsto twang
  • Specialized
1 7.9

Say a sound so air goes through the nose

is spoken with a nasal tone rather than focusing on airflow through the nose

Antonyms

articulate
64 4.6

Able to express ideas clearly in speech or writing

Compounds

nasal twang
1 7.9

A strong voice sound made through the nose common in some accents

How Nasal

to nasalize
  • Specialized
1 7.9
to twang
1 8.0
to speak
  • Literature
569 6.5

Surface Forms

twang infinitive
twanged past
twanged past participle
twanging present participle
twangs third person singular

Etymology

Twang as a verb comes from the same sound word for a plucked string, so to twang your speech is to give it that quick, vibrating 'nasal' quality. People compared the bright, tight sound in the nose to the noise of a guitar string, which is why we say someone 'twangs' their words.