- past tense form of sting.
stang
Americanverb
verb
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But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"
From Time Magazine Archive
My curse upon your venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gooms alang; An' thro' my lug gies monie a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
At one time the schoolmaster was likened to a perched radish, and again he was "riding the stang" for his sins.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
But for how lang the flie may stang, Let inclination law that.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
It curled and squirmed and gleamed, The stang it glowed, red-hot it seemed; Whate'er it touched it brunt and bristled, The very sod it scorched and frizzled.
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint
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