stang
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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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
What, stang, stang-wut; what is that? stang ti-á? what are you doing? stang nis-chai?
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by Gibbs, George
But if I hear tell that she doth rebel, Or him to complain, with fife and drum Then we will come, And ride the stang again.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various
Here is a box full of humble bees, That stang Eve as she sat on her knees, Tasting the fruit to her forbidden.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Now, in the middle part of the third hour, the air of the Gorge did begin that it was heavy, and to have a seeming of fumes that stang something upon the throat, odd whiles.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
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