A careless, foolish talker or writer.
[1809. “Federal Slangwhanging.”—Title of a political squib in the Essex (Mass.) Register, May 20.]
1810. He thought the most effectual mode would be to assemble all the slang whangers [editors] great and small…. Let any fleet, however large, be but once assailed by this battery of slang whangers, and &c.—Salmagundi, in the Mass. Spy, May 2.
1810. Some pitiful slangwhangers are pretending a great deal of sympathy [for dogs].—The Repertory, Boston, Aug. 14.
1813. Being considerable of a “slang-whanger” myself, I at once determined, &c.—The Stranger, Albany, Oct. 9, p. 135.
1840. The term traitor had been applied to him by political slangwhangers.—Mr. Tallmadge of N.Y., U.S. Senate, Feb. 25: Cong. Globe, p. 230, App.
1841. Mr. Pickens of S. Carolina said that the distinguished and venerable gentleman [Mr. J. Q. Adams] had stooped to play a second part to the miserable, contemptible Irish slangwhanger, Daniel O’Connell: House of Representatives, id., p. 266.
1843. It is hardly possible that any Southern slangwhanger will be able to set the Mississippi on fire.—Nauvoo Neighbor, May 24.
1856. He had just been mouthing about Cupid and Hymen, in the poetical slang—for poets of an imitative school are all so many slangwhangers—repeaters of a stereotyped phraseology.—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 336 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1862. Men know the character of their Government, and they also know that “coercion” and “subjugation” is mere ad captandum, idle and unmeaning slangwanging.—Mr. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, U.S. Senate, Jan. 31: Cong. Globe, p. 586/2.
