pangn.1
/paŋ/, U.S. /pæŋ/ 1.
a. A sudden sharp spasm of pain which grips the body or a part of it; a shooting pain. In early use frequently with reference to pains of death or childbirth; now also in weakened sense with reference to hunger. Frequently in plural.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > anguish or torment
piningOE
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pinsing?c1225
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martyrdomc1384
tormentryc1386
labourc1390
martyryc1390
throea1393
martyre?a1400
cruelty14..
rack?a1425
hacheec1430
prong1440
agonya1450
ragea1450
pang1482
sowing1487
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afflict?1529
torture?c1550
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excruciation1618
fellness1642
afflictedness1646
pungency1649
perialgia1848
perialgy1857
racking1896
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain
stitchc1000
showera1300
shutea1300
gridea1400
gripa1400
shota1400
stounda1400
lancing1470
pang1482
twitch?1510
shooting1528
storm1540
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gird1614
twang1721
tang1724
shoot1756
darting1758
writhe1789
catch1830
lightning pain1860
twitcher1877
rash1900
1482 W. Cely Let. 29 Aug. in Cely Lett. (1975) 173 Margere ys dowghter ys past to Godd. Hytt was berydd thys same daye, on whoys sowle Jhesu hawe marsy. Syr, I vnderstond hytt hadd a grett pang: what sycknesse hytt was I cannott saye.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQviv In the pange and distresse of dethe.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xlviii. 18 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 43 The wife, whose wofull care The panges of child-bed findes.
1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 338 This man being very olde, died in a pang.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxvi. 17 Like as a woman with childe..is in paine, and cryeth out in her pangs . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 484 Intestin Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs . View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋2 The Man in the Pangs of the Stone, Gout, or any acute Distemper.
1739 J. Wesley Jrnl. 2 May in Extract of Jrnl. (1742) 44 His Breast heaving at the same Time, as in the Pangs of Death.
1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls vii. 118 The pang which shot through her yesterday.
1846 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. iv. 280 The attempt to allay the pangs of hunger by filling the stomach with non-nutritious substances.
1886 Dict. National Biogr. VII. 124/1 Hearing a woman cry in the pangs of childbirth, he halted his troops and made provision for her delivery.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf i. 8 The water was cold—so cold that it was painful. The pang, as I plunged into it, was as quick and sharp as that of fire.
1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday 155 At the hotel,..where the food was hardly enough to ease the pangs of hunger, he came in touch with an American who could speak Russian.
1987 Today's Health Apr. 29 Angina is only a symptom of heart disease, and the pains and pangs of its distress can serve as an early warning.
b. A sudden sharp feeling of mental anguish or intense emotional pain. Now frequently in somewhat weakened sense: a brief sensation of regret, unease, etc.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a pang
stitch?c1225
prong1440
twitch?1510
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pincha1566
aculeusa1612
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tang1724
twinging1816
brain-ache1836
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Aiv One pang of dyspayre, or one pang of desyre One pang of one dyspleasaunt loke of her eye One pang of one worde of her mouth as in yre Or in restraynt of her loue which I requyre.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N5v The bitter pangs, that doth your heart infest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 89 Say that some Lady..Hath for your loue as great a pang of heart As you haue for Oliuia. View more context for this quotation
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 89 O sharp convulsive pangs of agonizing pride!
1724 T. Cibber Henry VI (ed. 2) v. i. 53 May all the bitter Pangs of a rack'd Conscience Pursue me here.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide i. iii. 5 Keen are the Pangs Of hapless Love.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xiii. 144 High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse!
1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xxxviii. 303 Cheerfully and without a pang sacrifice the dollars you have paid.
1942 P. Larkin Let. 7 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 34 I am gnawed by pangs of jealousy.
1999 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) June 32/1 Not a day goes by without an agonising pang of ‘what if?’
2. A sudden sharp feeling or emotion of any kind; a sudden brief sensation.
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the mind > emotion > [noun] > sudden access of emotion
heart-quakinga1398
pang1542
heart-quake1561
heart-qualm1590
correption1659
surprise1670
thrilla1680
shock1705
thrilling1747
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 117v This pangue or guierie of love dooeth especially..invade & possesse suche persones.
1570 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (new ed.) ii. viii. §1. 206 O what a mery pange [printed pauge; 1571 pange] was this M. Harding?
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xix. 32) 149 [He] does that in a drunken pang.
a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1743) VIII. 3417 Galen..when he had anatomized man's body, and carefully surveyed the frame of it..fell into a pang of devotion and wrote a hymn to his Creator.
1747 J. Edwards True Saints vi Without any appearance of strong impressions on the imagination, sudden flights and pangs of the affections, and vehement emotions in animal nature.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 9. 670 Say, canst thou feel the pleasing pangs of love?
a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 162 Refin'd and chaste, thy vestal fire, Averse to amorous pangs and ruder joy!
1868 M. B. Smedley Poems 110 For in his soul Each tender tiny promise of a bud Struck such a pang of joy.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi The strangely moving power of..certain poems read when we were young, irrational doorways..through which the mystery of fact, the wildness and the pang of life, stole into our hearts and thrilled them.
1988 W. Hamilton Lap of Luxury ii. xv. 170 It was much more expensive than Vincent expected, but he sprang for it with a pang of husbandly devotion.
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pangadj.
/paŋ/, U.S. /pæŋ/, Scottish English /paŋ/, Irish English /pæŋ/ Scottish and Irish English (northern).† 2. Scottish. Solid; firm; strong; skilfully made. Obsolete. rare.
1. Stuffed, crammed; completely filled; packed tight. Cf. pang-full adj.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > stuffed or crammed
well-stuffed?1483
well-crammed1567
pang1568
stuffed1598
refert1642
referted1657
charged (also crammed, primed, etc.) to the muzzle1782
packed1795
chock-a-block1822
pang-full1825
pack-full1858
ram-jam full1860
jam-packed1925
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) ii. 178 Thair avairis fyld vp all the feild, Thay wer so fow and pang With drafe.
1807 J. Ruickbie Wayside Cottager 110 The bench is fill'd, the house is pang.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 114 The space..Was crawlin' wi' sae pang a mass You scarce could see a spat o' grass.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 228 Pang, of persons, etc.: satiated with food. Of places, etc. Stuffed full.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 246/2 Pang, full, packed, crammed.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [adjective]
hardeOE
strongOE
stithOE
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sturdyc1374
brazena1382
mighty?1448
boisterous?1571
oaky1631
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pang1813
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 75 Se pang was our pearily prowe; Quhan we culdna speil the brow of the wavis, We needilit them throu belowe.
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pangv.1
/paŋ/, U.S. /pæŋ/ Now rare.† 2. intransitive. To cause a pang or pain. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. transitive. To afflict with or subject to acute physical or emotional pain.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with anguish or torment
tintreghec1175
torment1297
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pinse?c1335
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] > afflict with pangs
pingeOE
prickOE
bite?c1200
to smite to a person's hearta1225
stingc1386
hita1400
tanga1400
prickle?a1513
pang1520
punch1548
stimulate1548
twinge1647
1520 Lyfe Ioseph of Armathia (Pynson) sig. B.i His chylde in the pestylence was in Ieopardy And sore panged.
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. A.iiv What heuynesse dyd me pange.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. iiiv By the tormentyng..of which sicknes, men were so..peynfully pangued.
1614 S. Rowlands Fooles Bolt soone Shott sig. A3v The Bridgrome..at hart was pang'd, And look'd like one that had bin lately hang'd.
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 270 He alledgeth that he is pang'd by his conscience for his but luke-warm affection to the Jovist faction.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 180 The news of your misfortune panged me to the very intrails.
1790 D. Morison Poems 95 Strive wi' lees my head to pang.
1832 C. Webbe Lyric Leaves 99 Though I for lack of thee were panged with pain.
1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) 622 Grief my heart so panged, I fled.
1983 S. Donaldson Gilden-fire 20 The Bloodguard did not pang themselves with uncertainties.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 29 Mar. 4 I'd watch him walk into the giant steel mills of Newcastle, his smallness panging me with loneliness for him.
b. transitive. To move by any sudden powerful emotion. rare.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > affect by sudden emotion
pang1613
thrilla1616
thirl1725
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 526 Heere the kinde-hearted Iesuit is panged with a fit of Charitie to yoke the Lutherans with them.
a1924 M. Ghose Coll. Poems (1970) I. ii. 207 I, solitary, Stood panged with alien beauty, lured, Fretted, a hushed cold tree.
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1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 15 'Tis a sufferance, panging As soule and bodies seuering. View more context for this quotation
1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 531 May the mortal stroke Be balanced well, and pang not.
3. intransitive. To suffer pangs; to ache or hurt.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > ache
acheeOE
warka1000
worka1425
pang1729
nag1836
1729 H. Carey Poems (ed. 3) 56 Mammy Andromache, and her Lammy, Hanging panging, at the Breast Of a Matron most distrest.
1813 G. Bruce Poems, Ballads, & Songs 148 To breed sic grief in our guid town, An' set my bosom sae a panging.
1934 Z. N. Hurston Jonah's Gourd Vine xix. 228 He..beat her severely, and felt better... He panged a little less.
1976 A. Haley Roots (1977) 164 Kuata's belly was panging with hunger.
Derivatives
ˈpanging n.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] > action of afflicting with a pang
stinginga1300
thrilling1526
panging1863
1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis I. i. ii. ii. 124 Never shall the panging of your spirits be at rest.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 53 What this aghast surprise of keenest panging, Wherefrom I blench, and cry thy soft mouth rest?
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pangv.2
/paŋ/, U.S. /pæŋ/, Scottish English /paŋ/, Irish English /pæŋ/ Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English.† 1. transitive. Scottish. To crush; to defeat utterly. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 5631 This Caratac..With litill feir hes pangit all the fect Or euer tha wist outher to fend or fle.
2.
a. transitive. To pack tight; to stuff; to cram full. Also: to press (objects) close together. Also intransitive with passive meaning.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram
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pitchc1300
thrustc1380
purra1398
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farcec1405
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threstc1540
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prop1568
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ram1590
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stivea1639
thrack1655
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jam1719
squab1819
farcy1830
cram-jam1880
jam-pack1936
1637 S. Rutherford Let. 14 July in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 9 Hell will be empty..and heaven panged full.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 24 As fou 's the House coud pang.
1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xix, in Poems 49 It pangs us fou o' Knowledge.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvi. 237 The auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist. View more context for this quotation
1859 A. Whitehead Lyvennet 4 When they'd pang'd their kites wi' crusts.
1899 Speaker 4 Feb. 157 Men whose minds are panged with the lore of old Scotland.
1928 A. D. Mackie In Two Tongues 45 Annand, mysel, and twae-three ither Maun breenge wi' shoothers pang'd thegither.
1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots xv. 16 Gledlie wad he panged his wame wi the huils at they maitit the swine wi.
1994 W. N. Herbert Forked Tongue 57 This tune that pangs a keelie's thrappil an fills thi wurm that pangs thi appil.
b. transitive. Irish English. To pile or heap up.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > heap or pile up
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ruck?c1225
ruckle?c1225
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aggerate1693
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pang1898
1898 S. MacManus Bend of Road 68 The hall panged up with footless pots.
1899 S. MacManus In Chimney Corners 162 Six ton of corn piled and panged up to the roof.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 246/2 Pang, peng, pile up, heap up.
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pangint.n.2
/paŋ/, U.S. /pæŋ/ A. int.
Representing a short resonant sound, such as that produced by the striking of metal, etc. (Frequently reduplicated.)
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1907 E. M. Forster Longest Journey xiii. 163 ‘Pang!’ said the church bell suddenly; ‘pang! pang!’
1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. iii. 188 Every man eager to pace the stallions, ‘Pang, pang’ and Rein bells chink.
1995 C. Higson Full Whack (1996) 15 Then there are bumps. You know, pang, pang, on the floor.
B. n.2
A short resonant sound. (Also reduplicated.)
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1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 65 As the hoofèd sound of a drum marched on With a pang like darkness.
1935 M. Rukeyser Coll. Poems (1978) 122 We,..besieged by laughter from the outer room, heard the pang, pang of bells bury our hope for private warmth or time or bed.
1958 L. Durrell Mountolive vii. 144 There were two excellent hard courts which rang all day to the pang of racquets.
1990 J. Updike Rabbit at Rest iii. 446 Harry hangs up, and the telephone startles him by returning, with a pang and a clatter, the dime and four quarters.
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