• (Received Pronunciation,General American)enPR:dăng;IPA^(key):/dæŋ/

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• Rhymes:-æŋ

First attested inc. 1797,^[1] aminced oath ofdamn.

dang (third-person singular simple presentdangs,present participledanging,simple past and past participledanged)

1. (euphemistic)Damn.

dang

1. (euphemistic)Damn.

dang (notcomparable)

1. (euphemistic)Damn.

   Synonyms:darn,durn

dang (notcomparable)

1. (euphemistic)Damn.

   Synonyms:darn,durn

   • 2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, inCosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     Draining your pasta water (and reserving a bit for your pasta sauce recipe) is sodang easy with this clip-on strainer. Plus, it wastes waaay less cabinet space than a traditional colander.

dang (pluraldangs)

1. (euphemistic) Adamn, anegligible quantity, minimalconsideration.

   I don't give adang.

2. (humorous,rare) Adam(structure placed around a body of water),used because of thehomophony betweendam anddamn.
   • 2006 October 3, Lute Olson, David Fisher,Lute!: The Seasons of My Life, Macmillan,→ISBN, page 4:

     I don't often yell at my players or officials--I've never once thrown a chair, the best I ever did was a clipboard--and I never curse. People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the HooverDang.

   • 2009, Chuck Holton,Melt Down, Multnomah,→ISBN, page194:

     “Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'HooverDang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good. “No, honey. You don't have to call it that. […]

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

dang

2. (obsolete)simplepast ofding

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dang (third-person singular simple presentdangs,present participledanging,simple past and past participledanged)

1. (transitive,obsolete) Todash.
   • (Can wedate this quote?),Christopher Marlowe,Hero and Leander‎^[2]:

     Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage,
     Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.

• “dang”, inCollins English Dictionary.
• “dang”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dang” inTheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

• N.D. Ga.,NDGA,gDNA,gdna

A lengthening ofdanë, Gheg variant ofdarë. CompareOld High Germanzanga(“tongs”).(Canthis⁽⁺⁾ etymology besourced?)

dang f

1. bite,nip

• darë

dang

1. Romanization ofꦢꦁ

Borrowed fromBurmeseတိုင်း(tuing:).

dang

1. tomeasure

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, inKyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[3], volume35,→DOI,→ISSN, pages91–128

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dang

1. full

• Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, inCahier de Studia Iranica xx‎^[4], pages13-36

FromProto-Kuki-Chin*ɗoon

dang

1. todrink

dang

1. second-personsingularimperative ofdangen

dang

1. water

• Manam organized phonology data (2011, SIL)

dang (dang⁵ /dang⁰,Zhuyin˙ㄉㄤ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of當 /当

dang

1. Nonstandard spelling ofdāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofdǎng.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofdàng.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

FromHaidadáng.

• IPA^(key):/d̥aŋ/

dang

1. you

   haaw-gwaadang qaaguhla-gii?(in songs or storytelling)

   /haːw.ɡ̊waː d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhla.ɡ̊i/

   there-(question)you leave-(perfect tense)

   Haveyou left?

   kuu-gudang qaaguhl-gii?(in speech)

   /kʰːu.ɡ̊u d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhl.ɡ̊i/

   there-(question)you leave-(perfect tense)

   Haveyou left?

• John Enrico,Northern Haida Songs

FromProto-Mon-Khmer*taang(“to extend, stretch”); cognate withKhmerត្រដាង(trɑdaang,“to stretch out limbs”).

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key):[zaːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế)IPA^(key):[jaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key):[jaːŋ˧˧]

dang

1. (of limbs) tostretch out

• dạng(“to stretch out”)

dang

1. way
2. palate (roof of mouth)

dang

1. to behealthy
2. totreat (eg. someone to dinner)

• Samson Alexander Lotven (2021)The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎^[5]