Crossword clues for twang
twang
- Nasal speech pattern
- Willie Nelson sound
- Steel guitar sound
- Nashville sound
- Nashville nasality
- Jew's-harp sound
- Country music sound
- Bluegrass sound
- Bluegrass characteristic
- Willie Nelson vocal quality
- Vocal quality of some country singers
- Vocal characteristic of Miranda Lambert or Loretta Lynn
- Sound of plucked string
- Sound of a bowstring
- Sound of a banjo
- Sound from a banjo
- Sound a banjo can make
- Plucking sound
- Noise made by playing a steel guitar
- Nashville vocal quality
- Nashville tone
- Nasal voice quality
- Nasal speech quality
- Nasal speech
- Harsh ringing sound
- Guitar's sound
- Feature of Dwight Yoakam's voice
- Distinctive sound in country music
- Country singer's quality
- Country guitarist's timbre
- C&W singer's vocal quality
- Banjo's sound
- Archery sound
- A Nashville sound
- "Love It When I Feel Like This" band
- "Jewellery Quarter" band, with "The"
- '09 George Strait song/album
- Guitar sound
- Nasal tone
- Vocal effect
- Southern sound
- String sound
- Nashville sound?
- Country singer's sound
- Banjo sound
- Vocal nasality
- Country sound
- Sound of an arrow being shot
- A sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- Exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
- Pluck a guitar
- Snuffle
- Nasal sound
- Eastern dynasty maintains western pronunciation
- Wife gets in smack - result of knicker elastic being tweaked?
- Want reform before midnight, in a manner of speaking
- Suggestion of worry returning after time
- Sound from plucking pheasant, ultimately hung up to eat
- Sharp vibrating sound
- At first they were all nervous: finally showing pluck
- Flavour containing hint of walnut, in a manner of speaking
- Local intonation
- Pluck pheasant's tail and eat up
- In Dynasty, women’s nasal speech
- John Thomas on the northern accent
- Twickenham's first comedian embracing northern regional accent
- Manner of speaking
- Vocal quality
- Nasal accent
- Guitar effect
- Nashville intonation
- Plucked string sound
- Plucked-string sound
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twang \Twang\, n.
A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.
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An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.
He has such a twang in his discourse.
--Arbuthnot.
Twang \Twang\, v. t. To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.
Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string.
--Pope.
Twang \Twang\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twanged; p. pr. & vb. n. Twanging.] [Of imitative origin; cf. Tang a sharp sound, Tinkle.] To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.
Twang \Twang\, n. A tang. See Tang a state. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, of imitative origin. Originally the sound of plucked bows and strings; extension to "a nasal vocal sound" is first recorded 1660s. The verb is first attested 1540s. Related: Twanged; twanging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The sound of a vibrating string, e.g. of a bow, or a musical instrument. 2 A technical term for a particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electrical guitars. 3 A trace of regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. 4 A sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed. vb. To produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
WordNet
n. a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) [syn: nasal twang]
v. cause to sound with a twang; "He twanged the guitar string"
sound with a twang; "the bowstring was twanging"
twitch or throb with pain
pluck (strings of an instrument); "He twanged his bow"
pronounce with a nasal twang
Wikipedia
Twang is an old onomatopoeia originally used to describe the sound of a vibrating bow string after the arrow is released. By extension it applies to the similar vibration produced when the string of a musical instrument is plucked, and similar sounds. The term came to be applied to a nasal vocal resonation, and was historically used to describe "a disagreeable resonance". Later, however, the term came to be more broadly associated with regional dialects, to the extent that in some locations, "a twang is a desirable commodity".
Specific uses of the term include:
- A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of some electric guitars; Fenders and Gretschs are said to have more twang.
- A high frequency singing sound especially affected by country singers. It allows for a higher vocal reach than would be possible using the standard guttural technique and can be used as an alternative to falsetto singing. Willie Nelson almost always sings with a twang voice.
Twang were an indie band from Manchester/ Preston, England, signed to Ron Johnson Records. Their first release was a flexi-disc, "What's The Rub" in 1985 distributed with Debris magazine. Debut single proper, "Sharp" was released on the Stet label, and later released by Ron Johnson, reaching number 19 on the UK Indie Chart in 1986. This was followed by "Kick and Complain", which reached number 35. A final 12-inch release, "Snap Back", was issued late in 1987. The band were bracketed with other indie acts as part of the 'shambling' genre. However the band and similar hard edged label mates Big Flame and The MacKenzies somewhat disliked what they saw as lazy journalism.
The band toured nationally with The Age of Chance and That Petrol Emotion and performed at a packed Hacienda at an AIDS benefit along with The Woodentops and Everything But The Girl. Latterly Albert Walton replaced Penrose on drums. The band split up in 1988.
Despite the band's short lifespan, they recorded three critically acclaimed sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio One show, two in 1986, and another in 1988.
One song from their first Peel session; Big Dry Out appears on the Manchester So Much To Answer For compilation issued through the BBC and featuring Mancunion musical royalty The Smiths amongst others.
The band have no connection with the band The Twang.
Twang is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on August 11, 2009, via MCA Nashville, the same label to which Strait has been signed since 1981. It is produced by Tony Brown. The lead-off single "Living for the Night", which Strait wrote with his son Bubba and songwriter Dean Dillon, was released in May 2009. As of the chart dated January 8, 2011, the album has sold 662,023 copies in the US.
"Twang" is a song written by Jim Lauderdale, Kendall Marvel and Jimmy Ritchey, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in October 2009 as the second single and title track from his album Twang. It also appeared in the 2009 film Did You Hear About the Morgans?.
Twang is the sound of a resonating string, or, by extension, a nasal vocal resonation.
Twang may also refer to:
Usage examples of "twang".
But the flat twang of his Minnesota accent makes him seem out of place.
It chanced that out of one of the bundles there stuck the end of what the clerk saw to be a cittern, so drawing it forth, he tuned it up and twanged a harmony to the merry lilt which the dancers played.
Black jugglers from Zoos, sham snake-charmers from the desert, and story-tellers both grave and facetious, all twanging their hideous ginbri, had been seated on the ground in half-circles of soldiers and their women.
Girls in topheavy T-shirts and sawn-off jeans or else in superfemale parody of indigenous flounce and frill, the matrons also burgeoning in tight angular cords and a flush of freckly renewal, the bronzed brutes twanging their torsoes in the bar and enacting their ideal of modern male grace a moustachioed muscle.
It seemed to him that Gascoyne added the last bitter twang to his unpleasant feelings when, half an hour later, they marched with the others to chapel.
The trooper on his right had moved away so that the rope between them was taut, and it parted with a twang that set him free but for his gyved hands.
In the videos, he prowled the stage like a wary panther, wiping away buckets of sweat with a succession of huge handkerchiefs, his voice ranging from a mild, just-folks West Virginia twang to a lacerating, scornful jeremiad shriek.
After a visit to the Consulate I entered a kuruma and, with two ladies in two more, was bowled along at a furious pace by a laughing little mannikin down Main Street--a narrow, solid, wellpaved street with well-made side walks, kerb-stones, and gutters, with iron lamp-posts, gas-lamps, and foreign shops all along its length--to this quiet hotel recommended by Sir Wyville Thomson, which offers a refuge from the nasal twang of my fellow-voyagers, who have all gone to the caravanserais on the Bund.
She missed the aristocratic twang in his voice, and the hesitation for words, and the fluid lordliness with which he rolled over difficulties in speech.
He gave each string a final, testing twang, looking into the wings for a signal from Terpnus, his music tutor and the leading lyrist in Rome.
Onstage, he spoke with a British inflection, but Carter guessed from the atonal twang he heard leaking through that Mysterioso was a Cornhusker or a Hoosier.
Naked boy in the middle of the room twang a two-string ouad, trace an arabesque on the floor.
Here the Yoshiwara seemed to be slumbering, but not far away the houses and bars on Main Street were bubbling, the night young with the noise of men laughing and raucous singing, the occasional twang of samisen and laughter and pidgin mixed with it.
Each pause, however slight, is marked by two or three sharp beats on the tightly stretched skin, or twangs with a palmetto leaf plectrum, loud or soft, according to the subject of the discourse at that point.
Always, there was the steady tick, tick, tick of the ratchet wheels, the faint twang of the escapements, the snick of ruby on ruby, inside the little clock, and then the magnification of those sounds inside the thick brown and white marble night table top, and the echoes of those sounds bouncing back and forth underneath among the hard wooden table legs and on the shelf with its books, as Tim dozed the nights away with one eye sometimes opening a bit, then closing again.