noun
1.
a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
2.
a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger pangs.
Origin:
1495–1505; origin uncertain
1495–1505; origin uncertain
Synonyms
1, 2. twinge, ache, throb, prick, stab.
1, 2. twinge, ache, throb, prick, stab.
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| —n | |
| a sudden brief sharp feeling, as of loneliness, physical pain, or hunger | |
| [C16: variant of earlier prange, of Germanic origin] | |
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Pang
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
pang
1526, "sudden physical pain," of unknown origin, perhaps related to prong (prongys of deth is recorded from 1447). Ref. to mental pain is from 1570.
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Medical Dictionary
pang (pāng)
n.
A sudden sharp spasm of pain.
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Example sentences
Indeed, the pang of an avoidable loss lingers longer than the rush of an expected victory.
In his hands, that jagged figure becomes a pang of unease.
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