twangle
English
Etymology
From twang + -le (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtwæŋ.ɡəl/
- Rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Verb
twangle (third-person singular simple present twangles, present participle twangling, simple past and past participle twangled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To twang repetitively.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:
- Cal. Be not affeard, the Iſle is full of noyſes,
Sounds, and ſweet aires, that giue delight and hurt not :
Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments
Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices,
That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe,
Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches
Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd
I cri'de to dreame againe.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748:
- While the twangling violin / Struck up with Soldier-laddie.
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Noun
twangle (plural twangles)
- A twanging sound.
- Synonyms: twang, twanging, twangling