Sc. and dial. [Variant of THONG v.; cf. WHANG sb.1]
1. trans. To beat as with a thong; to lash (also fig.); gen. to beat, strike, hit or knock violently.
1684. Meriton, Yorksh. Dial., 54. If she hear she’l whang me varra sayer.
1786. Burns, Ordination, iii. Heresy is in her pow’r, And gloriously she’ll whang her.
1889. Baden-Powell, Pigsticking, 21. A savage would consider it the height of sport to go and whang a pig on the head.
b. To throw, drive, pull, etc., with force or with violent impact.
1820. Clare, Rural Life (ed. 2), 60. I’d just streak’d down, and with a swish Whang’d off my hat soak’d like a fish.
1899. Crockett, Black Douglas, xix. Whang the steel bolt through his ribs. Ibid., xxxiv. Bring back every true lad that can whang bow, or gar sword-iron whistle.
2. To cut in ‘whangs’ or large slices. Also absol. or intr.
a. 1743. Argyll is my name, in Whitelaw, Bk. Scot. Song (1866), 224. I’ll aff to the Highlands as hard’s I can reel. And whang at the bannocks o barley meal.
1801. W. Beattie, Tales (1813), 8. At last, came cheese … My uncle set it to his breast And whang’d it down.
