subs. (old: now recognised).—‘A smack or ill Taste’ (B. E.); hence (modern) = a decided flavour.
1707. FARQUHAR, The Beaux Stratagem, iii. 2. Gib. Doctor, you talk very good English, but you have a mighty TWANG of the foreigner.
1769–78. TUCKER, The Light of Nature Pursued, II. II. xxiii. Though the liquor was not at all impaired thereby in substance or virtue, it might get some TWANG of the vessel.
1831. B. DISRAELI, The Young Duke, iv. 6. Hot, bilious, with a confounded TWANG in his mouth.
1817. SCOTT, Rob Roy, xviii. They already began to have a TWANG of commerce in them.
TO GO OFF TWANGING, verb. phr. (old).—To go well, swimmingly: cf. (RAY) AS GOOD AS EVER TWANGED = as good as may be.
1629. MASSINGER, The Roman Actor, ii. 2.
| Had he died … | |
| It had GONE OFF TWANGING. |
