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twangy

/twang-ee/US // ˈtwæŋ i //

弦外之音,弦子,弦乐,弦歌

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the sharp, vibrating tone of a plucked string.
    • : having a nasal voice quality.

Examples

  • It's a blog in search of lonesome, twangy music that sounds old even if it isn't.

  • There were as many muffled and twangy notes as solidly struck strings, casual and rhythmic and one with the voice.

  • Because of the nature of the app—and the teeny, twangy language it employs—Lulu unsurprisingly targets girls on college campuses.

  • The show opened with a bang: twangy, spaghetti-Western music; girls in Rodarte's signature spaghetti knits.

  • She has one long leg in the Top 40 charts and another in the land of twangy vowels.

  • He had winded now a scent that roused him; and what is more, he remembered precisely what that twangy, acrid scent betokened.

  • I was sitting in the reading-room of the hotel one day, believing that I was alone, when a twangy voice broke in upon the silence.

  • The cook flicked on the dial knob and the twangy strains of Hawaiian guitar music came throbbing out.

  • Their officers rushed wildly to and fro, excitedly waving their swords, shouting in their twangy language above the din of battle.

  • The infantry, still looking and chattering in the twangy language of their tribe, were holding their ground.