Word of the Day for Monday, May 6, 2013 Spang \spang\, adverb:
directly, exactly:
The bullet landed spang on target.
He had been knocked spang out
of his Keds.
-- Stephen King, Different Seasons, 1983
-- Stephen King, Different Seasons, 1983
"And you say
Stephanie has hidden this notebook in Daddy's cow-cream?" "Plumb spang in
the cow-creamer."
-- P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters, 1938
-- P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters, 1938
Spang is an Americanism of uncertain origin. It first entered English
in the 1830s.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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