twangy

Examples

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• "Plant White Roses" first appeared on the original Distant Plastic Trees CD in 1991; tonight they gave it a less gothic, more twangy feel, with player Shirley Simms harmonizing sweetly with Merritt and Gonson.

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• Twangy surf guitars with driving rhythms and tons of layers have become an expected feature in The Babies' music.

  Blog text (23)

• "Man on the Moon" catches your attention immediately with a twangy southern guitar.

  Blog text (34)

• "Quonk, quonk, head this way, pal," a twangy voice called out.

  Fiction book (1999)

• "Quiet, y'all!" A lilting girl's voice, a twangy angel sound, had risen out of the cacophony.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Bluegrass, soft and twangy, nice, a banjo, a guitar, and he smelled of coffee and his shower when he leaned in for the kiss.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Before she had gotten the question out, however, Samuel Mordecai's twangy drawl took over: "Our women keep very busy here at Jezreel, you can probably see that walking through the grounds."

  Fiction book (1995)

• The twangy redneck drawl over the phone immediately suggested to Molly a physical type: lean and spare, thin-lipped, squinch-eyed, and balding.

  Fiction book (1995)

• On stage, Uncle Roy and his Red Creek Wranglers were providing a twangy background, a potent mixture of slide guitar and yodeling that came at you like a truckful of turkeys.

  Fiction book (1991)

• You could tell he was from the South by his twangy way of speaking.

Antonyms

S

smooth

256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

C

clear

40 1.0

Pure and distinct in sound or colour

How Sharp

piercing

2 5.5

sharp

55 1.3

twangy

3 5.8

thin

221 5.2

mellow

46 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology