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wang¹

  • /ˈwæŋ/
  • /ˈweɪ̯ŋ/
  • /ˈwɛ̃ŋ/

Sounds like whang (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -æŋ

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic.

noun wangs

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of whang

verb wangs · wanging · wanged

  1. transitive To batter; to clobber; to conk.
  2. transitive To throw hard. Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.

wang²

  • /ˈwæŋ/
  • /ˈweɪ̯ŋ/
  • /ˈwɛ̃ŋ/

Sounds like whang (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -æŋ

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang, a dialectal form of thong (“strip of leather”). Compare wong.

noun wangs · whang

  1. colloquial Penis. Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.

    Similar: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode

Wang³

  • /wæŋ/
  • /wɔŋ/

Sounds like wang · Rhymes with -æŋ, -ɔŋ

Where it comes from

From various romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 王 (Wáng) or 汪 (Wāng). Doublet of Wong, Heng, Ong, and Vuong.

As a Korean surname, from 왕 (wang), from the above.

proper noun Wangs

  1. A surname from Chinese.
  2. A surname from Korean [in turn from Chinese].

Wang⁴

  • /wæŋ/
  • /wɔŋ/

Sounds like wang · Rhymes with -æŋ, -ɔŋ

Where it comes from

As a Danish surname, from Vang.

As a German and Dutch surname, from wang (“cheek”) and obsolete derivatives of Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow”).

As a Jewish surname, from the German sense, and also a nickname for someone from Hungary (compare Russian Венгрия (Vengrija)).

As a North Germanic surname, spelling variant of Vang.

proper noun Wangs

  1. A surname from Danish, variant of Vang.

Wang⁵

  • /wæŋ/
  • /wɔŋ/

Sounds like wang · Rhymes with -æŋ, -ɔŋ

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡ (wāng).

proper noun

  1. A Meitei surname from Manipuri, variant of Wangjam, Wangkheimayum, Wangkheimayum, and Wangmayum.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: crown, wong, hung, mong, acer, cross, mu, ward, ching, cheng, queen, yang, tao, royal, emperor, prince

Translations

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verb To batter; to clobber; to conk

Русскийударя́ть udarjátʹ, бить bitʹ

verb To throw hard

Русскийшвырять švyrjatʹ

name Chinese surname

한국어왕 Wang
日本語王 Ō, ワン
中文王 Wáng
РусскийВан
Tiếng ViệtVương

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@misc{wang_2026,
  title = {wang},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wang},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}