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Meanings of twang in English

Spanish
twang

Singing technique.

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twang

Exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

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Examples for "nasal twang"
Examples for "nasal twang"
1
The same nasal twang was in her voice, the same snobbish reserve.
Dreams from Bunker Hill
2
He became steadier in his gaze; his voice lost some of its nasal twang.
The Guardian
3
He has a nasal twang, right priestly in its note.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
4
Eliphalet girded up his loins, and sharpened his nasal twang to cope with hers.
The Crisis — Volume 01
5
Noseplugs sealed her nostrils, giving her voice a nasal twang.
Sisterhood of Dune
Usage of twang in English
1
The air had the cold, sweet twang of peppermints in the throat.
Jeremy
2
Even his accent is often tinged with a distinct South African twang.
The South African
3
His voice had taken on the twang of an inner level resident.
Leviathan Wakes
4
Here is a rhyme that has in it a distinctly American twang:
Healthful Sports for Boys
5
She had the drawl and twang and accent of rural New England.
Senator North
6
The twang of the tuning-fork was drowned by a succession of cries.
Old Caravan Days
7
His ability to twang the most painful exposed nerve ends is compelling.
The Guardian
8
The sonorous twang, the see-saw gestures, the odd pronunciation, were vividly depicted.
Roderick Hudson
9
Assumed the appearance of a northern man and speaks with Yankee twang.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
10
At its twang the Daityas beheld the ten points to be empty.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
11
The same nasal twang was in her voice, the same snobbish reserve.
Dreams from Bunker Hill
12
An object flew after her and landed with a distinctive metallic twang.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
13
Like a harsh note of music sounded the twang of Diana's bow.
A Book of Myths
14
Kids around here just listen to country-western twang and not much else.
Mysterious Skin
15
The rope moved, stopped, jerked again, then with a twang it broke.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
16
Was there not also an American twang about the tone and accent?
Our Pilots in the Air
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Translations for twang
Spanish
twang
Twang through the time
Twang across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common