Word Finder - twang

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The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.

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A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.

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A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.

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Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern-European twang in his voice.

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The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.

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A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor.

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To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.

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To have a nasal sound.

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To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.

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To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

Some still have the giveaway Southern drawl, others have lost the twang forever, and the remainder can switch it on and off at will.

KoL's sound lies somewhere between southern hillbilly twang and blues-coated alternative rock, all of which is held together by Matthew's guitar.

The Telecaster is the preferred instrument of Rolling Stones guitar player Keith Richards, and it has a bluesy twang.

Dylan's musical style has encompassed folk music, protest songs and main stream rock with some country twang.

From the "twang" sound it makes when you strike a wrong chord, to the different crowd reactions, it all combines nicely to make Guitar Hero really an experience not to be missed.

Country songs often have a slight twang to them, so finding lyrics that also shows the melody and harmony will help people who need to perform the country version of a traditional holiday song in a live Christmas music concert.

The last sound to reach his ears as he dropped off to sleep was the hum of the vacuum cleaner competing with the twang of Merle Haggard on the disc player.

Some of the utterances including idle have an oral twang to them.

I was suddenly and rudely enlightened when I heard the twang of the bow, and saw the arrow flying straight toward me.

We boast it like a badge, but don't share the nasal twang which warms this pub to life.

After years of voice training the northern twang is still occasionally perceptible in his voice. * Peter married the actress Sian Phillips in 1959.

Whenever the British do American accents, it always comes off with a southern twang.

The first thing I had to do was imitate the Australian twang - something that lingers in my voice to this day.

The opening western style guitar twang is inappropriate because it sets up expectation of a western like which is then never met.

He sings this with a country twang, too.

She also writes the popular classical music weblog twang twang twang, which has been the subject of press acclaim all over the world.

They never look back, their pop song-writing sensibilities forever sullied by that delightful country twang.

We boast it like a badge, but do n't share the nasal twang which warms this pub to life.

After years of voice training the Northern twang is still occasionally perceptible in his voice. * Peter married the actress Sian Phillips in 1959.

We would twang away on it and try to get a tune out of it.

Every twang of the guitar was re-produced incredibly well, drums stopped dead " thwack " !