bang – English noun declension

English noun forms of bang

Noun: bang
Singularbang
Pluralbangs

Sample Sentences

  • When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
  • A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'. [1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:]
  • Tiffany has long hair and bangs.
  • his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang [1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country:]
  • She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead [1902, Barbara Baynton, Squeaker's Mate; reprinted in Carmel Bird, editor, The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, 2000, →ISBN:]
  • An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
  • Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang." [1980, C.W. Wilkinson, Peter H. Clarke, Dorothy C.M. Wilkinson, Communicating through Letters and Reports, 7th edition, page 651:]
  • Load the bang into the hole.
  • Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart. [1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98:]
  • As for myself, I take a bang now and then—I know plenty of croakers—but I really couldn't keep up a habit without a lot of running around and bother. [1952 January 19, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 101:]
  • There was a bang of onions off his breath.
  • I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them. [1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 38:]
  • "We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
  • "It gives me a bang, even a bigger bang than this," Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it. [1993, Douglas Woolf, Sandra Braman, Hypocritic Days & Other Tales, page 40:]
  • Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo. [2000, James Hadley Chase, Make the Corpse Walk, page 31:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
2. In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
3. In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash. See: Old English Nouns '*bangian', Old Norse Nouns 'banga', Icelandic Nouns 'banga', Danish Nouns 'banke', Dutch Nouns 'bengel', German Nouns 'Bengel'.

Verbs referencing "bang"

Dutch Nouns bengel, Finnish Nouns bänks.