Lexicographical Neighbors of Twangers
Literary usage of Twangers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.) by John Lyly (1892)
"... make the twangers here ? we have no trenchers to scrape, it makes my teeth on
edge to heare such grating. Get yon packing ! or I'le make you weare ..."
2. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Incantations, Specimens of by Charles Godfrey Leland (1891)
"... since the Pope has sanctioned of late years several very entertaining works
in which modern spiritualists, banjo-twangers, table-turners, &c., ..."
3. Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1906)
"Nor is the music improved if the band is increased by twangers on one-string
fiddles and screamers upon bamboo flutes, though the latter have the ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"... is twangers. TWANGLING JACK.—A fiddler (obsolescent). " On May even, the lads
and lasses . . . preceded by ..."
5. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"... twangers here ? we have no trenchers to scrape ; it makes my teeth on edge to
hear such grating. Get you packing, or I'll make you wear double stocks * ..."
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