spang

Adverb

WORDNET DICTIONARY

spang(v = verb.contact) bang - leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees"

is one way to collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike

Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s something

spang, v. t.

To spangle. [1913 Webster]

spang, v. i.

To spring; to bound; to leap. [1913 Webster]

"But when they spang o'er reason's fence,
We smart for't at our own expense." [1913 Webster]

spang, n.

A bound or spring. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

spang, n. [AS. spange a clasp or fastening; akin to D. spang, G. spange, OHG. spanga, Icel. spöng a spangle.].

A spangle or shining ornament. [1913 Webster]

"With glittering spangs that did like stars appear." [1913 Webster]

spang, adv. US colloq. exactly; completely (spang in the middle).

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

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