tang

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
    — a tang of citrus
  2. Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
  3. The vagina or vulva. countable,vulgar
    — The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]
  4. knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) countable,rare,uncountable
  5. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
  6. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
    — a tang of cellar
  7. Sexual intercourse with a woman uncountable,vulgar
  8. A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. figuratively
    — a tang of pedantry
  9. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
    — (archaic)
  10. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.; The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
    — full-tang
  11. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.; The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.; The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
    — I spent the evening collecting the abandoned nests of birds from a rock face a half league distant, and that night I struck fire from the tang of Terminus Est and boiled the coarse meal (which took a long time to cook, because of the altitude) and ate it.
  12. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.; The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
    — The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang[…]
  13. A shuffleboard paddle.
  14. Obsolete form of tongue. alt-of,obsolete
    — 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V, Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
  15. Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle. broadly
动词 v.
  1. To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper. dated
  2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
    — let thy tongue tang arguments of state

词形变化

tangs plural tangs plural tangs present,singular,third-person tanging participle,present tanged participle,past tanged past tangs plural tangs plural tangs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
tang button tangless tangy

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Middle Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).
词源 2
Imitative
词源 3
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang
词源 4
Clipping of poontang.
词源 5
Unknown
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