subs. (colloquial).—That is ‘twang’: also TWANK, TWANGDILLO, TWANGLING, and as verb.

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  1593.  SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1.

        Rascal fidler, TWANGLING Jack.
    Ibid. (1609), Tempest, iii. 2.
Sometimes a thousand TWANGLING instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices.

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  d. 1704.  T. BROWN, The Petition of Tho. Brown, in Works, i. 62.

        Even Durfey himself and such merry fellows,
That put their whole trust in tunes and TRANGDILLOES,
May hang up their harps and themselves on the willows.

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  1711.  ADDISON, The Spectator, No. 251, 18 Dec. A freeman of London has the privilege of disturbing a whole street, for an hour together, with the TWANKING of a brass-kettle or a frying-pan.

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  1762.  EMANUEL COLLINS, Miscellanies, Preface, viii. Pleas’d with the TWANGDILLOWS of poor Crowdero in a Country Fair.

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  1812.  COLMAN, Poetical Vagaries, iii.

        Loud, on the heath, a TWANGLE rush’d,
That rung out Supper, grand and big,
From the crack’d Bell of Blarneygig.

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  1840.  THACKERAY, A Shabby Genteel Story, ii. The young Andrea bears up gaily, however; TWANGLES his guitar.

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