Meaning

noun a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)

noun exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

verb cause to sound with a twang

originOnomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”) (whence modern English twinge), from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”).

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