twang
[noun]
Synonyms: hint, dash, intimation, shade, streak, suspicion, tinge, touch, trace, whiff

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I. twang¹ /twæŋ/ noun [countable usually singular]
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: From the sound]

1. a quality in the way someone speaks, produced when the air used to speak passes through their nose as well as their mouth:
a nasal twang
Her voice had a slight Australian twang.

2. a quick ringing sound like the one made by pulling a very tight wire and then suddenly letting it go

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II. twang² verb [intransitive and transitive]
if you twang something or if it twangs, it makes a quick ringing sound by being pulled and then suddenly let go:
She twanged the guitar strings.

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twang
noun
ADJ. slight | nasal | American, Cockney, etc.
VERB + TWANG have, speak with She had a slight Australian twang.
hear
PREP. with a ~ The words came out with an Irish twang to them.

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