twangle
A twanging sound.
Noun
Origin
From twang + -le (frequentative suffix).
Forms
Derived
Verb
- To twang repetitively.
- 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...
- While the twangling violin / Struck up with Soldier-laddie. - 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC: