wrang

• IPA^(key): /ɹæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ
• Homophone: rang

wrang

1. (dialect) simple past tense of wring
   • 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, p. 31:

     "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."

From written Dutch wrang. Doublet of vrank (“tart, sour”), which is the more strictly native form.

• IPA^(key): /vrɑŋ/

wrang (attributive wrang or wrange, comparative wranger, superlative wrangste)

1. harsh
2. bitter, rueful

From Middle Dutch wranc, from Old Dutch *wrang, from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz.

• IPA^(key): /vrɑŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

wrang (comparative wranger, superlative wrangst)

1. astringent (mouthfeel), tart

• wrangheid

• Afrikaans: vrank, wrang

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

wrang

1. first/third-person singular preterite of wringen

• wrong

• IPA^(key): /wrɑnɡ/, [wrɑŋɡ]

From Proto-West Germanic *wrang, from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz, from *wrangaz (“crooked, bent, curved”). Compare Alemannic German Rang (“convolution, bend”), Old Norse vröng (“a ship's rib”) (whence Icelandic röng, Old Norwegian vrǫng).

wrang m

1. (nautical) a ship's hold

• wranga

• Middle English: wrang, wrong, wrange, wronge (merged with descendant of wranga)
  • ⇒ Middle English: wrangel

Attested in later OE. Pons-Sanz and R. Dance argue that it's a native word inherited from Proto-West Germanic *wrang, from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz, and only the meaning was acquired from Old Norse rangr by Middle English.

wrang n

1. wrong, injustice

wrang

1. rough, uneven

• Middle English: wrong
  • English: wrong
  • Northumbrian: wrang
  • Scots: wrang

wrang (comparative mair wrang, superlative maist wrang)

1. Wrong.

wrang (comparative mair wrang, superlative maist wrang)

1. Wrong.