- spanghew
- To cause a frog or a toad to fly through the air
Grandiloquent dictionary. 2006.
spanghew
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spanghew — verb To strike and cause to fly in the air … Wiktionary
spanghew — Cleveland Dialect List to cause to move with force or velocity … English dialects glossary
spanghew — spang·hew … English syllables
spanghew — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ(h)yü transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: alteration of spang (I) dialect Britain : to throw violently into the air; especially : to throw (a frog) into the air from the end of a stick … Useful english dictionary
spang — I Cleveland Dialect List to fling II North Country (Newcastle) Words to leap with elastic force, to spring spanghew to throw with violence. The word is sometimes used to express a barbarous operation on the toad, a reptile to which rustics have a … English dialects glossary
spang-whew — variant of spanghew … Useful english dictionary
