twangy

[ twang-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of twangy¹

First recorded in 1885–90; twang + -y ¹

It's a blog in search of lonesome, twangy music that sounds old even if it isn't.

There were as many muffled and twangy notes as solidly struck strings, casual and rhythmic and one with the voice.

Because of the nature of the app—and the teeny, twangy language it employs—Lulu unsurprisingly targets girls on college campuses.

The show opened with a bang: twangy, spaghetti-Western music; girls in Rodarte's signature spaghetti knits.

She has one long leg in the Top 40 charts and another in the land of twangy vowels.

He had winded now a scent that roused him; and what is more, he remembered precisely what that twangy, acrid scent betokened.

I was sitting in the reading-room of the hotel one day, believing that I was alone, when a twangy voice broke in upon the silence.

The cook flicked on the dial knob and the twangy strains of Hawaiian guitar music came throbbing out.

Their officers rushed wildly to and fro, excitedly waving their swords, shouting in their twangy language above the din of battle.

The infantry, still looking and chattering in the twangy language of their tribe, were holding their ground.

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