twang

Object

• noise: The audience is subject to a series of twanging noises as you desperately tweak the headstock.
• sound: They are also installing a device which listens for the twanging sound of metal having a mid-life crisis.
• string: They were probably invented by somebody twanging the string of a hunting bow.

Converse of object

• have: Some of the utterances including idle have an oral twang to them.
• hear: I was suddenly and rudely enlightened when I heard the twang of the bow, and saw the arrow flying straight toward me.

Adjective modifier

• nasal: We boast it like a badge, but don't share the nasal twang which warms this pub to life.
• slight: Nice laid-back stuff with a slight twang of darkness in the lyrics.
• northern: After years of voice training the Northern twang is still occasionally perceptible in his voice. * Peter married the actress Sian Phillips in 1959.
• American: However his main strength could also be viewed as his weakness: that American twang both familiar yet grating.
• southern: Whenever the British do American accents, it always comes off with a southern twang.
• Australian: The first thing I had to do was imitate the Australian twang - something that lingers in my voice to this day.

Modifying Another Word

• away: We would twang away on it and try to get a tune out of it.

Noun used with modifier

• guitar: The opening western style guitar twang is inappropriate because it sets up expectation of a western like which is then never met.
• country: He sings this with a country twang, too.
• weblog: She also writes the popular classical music weblog twang twang twang, which has been the subject of press acclaim all over the world.

Preposition: of

• guitar: Every twang of the guitar was re-produced incredibly well, drums stopped dead " thwack " !