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nasal twang

n. exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) [syn: twang]

Usage examples of "nasal twang".

With no TV or recorded sound to sustain General American, it sounded like the native Nantucketers' clipped nasal twang was gradually coming out on top in the Island's linguistic stew.

The men around him pronounced it with a nasal twang, and many words he'd never read in any Sponglish book.

It was flat with a nasal twang and reminded me of a Vermont grocer we had dealt with one summer when I was a kid.

An Oxford accent partially masked the underlying clipped, flat, nasal twang of the native Australian.

He bellowed like a bull of Bashan in the pulpit, a fearful nasal twang accompanying his cracked voice.

His gift of imitation enabled him to reproduce the sermon, with its nasal twang and other oddities, so that the eccentricities of the preacher were reproduced and repeated, over and over, on the stumps of the field, and at evening gatherings.