[f. TWANG v.1 + -ER1.] One who or that which twangs. a. One who plays a twanging instrument. b. Anything very large or fine of its kind; a whacker. slang.
1598. Florio, Tempélla, a fiddle, a croud, or kit. Also a great swaggring twanger.
1631. Hausted, Rival Friends, I. iii. You euerlasting Twanger [boy with a lute]—Auoyd.
1677. W. Hughes, Man of Sin, III. iii. 59. Well,… Doth it not ring aloud like a Twanger, that the Angels should ring Bells in Heaven unto the honour of the Trinity?
1877. N. W. Linc. Gloss., Twanger, a barefaced lie. Ibid. (1889), (ed. 2), s.v., Them to’nups e’ th’ foherteen aacre is twangers.
