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kang en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkæŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkæŋ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈkɑŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

Meanings

  1. A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
    • Why is it built this way? Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven. Kang? What is a kang for? A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in. You mean togther? Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out. 1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, →OCLC:
  2. A large Chinese water jar.

Forms

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k'ang alternative lexicographic
kangs Number=Plur lexicographic

kang en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of kangaroo.
    alt of kangaroo

Forms

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kangs Number=Plur lexicographic

kang en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • [ˈkɛ̃ŋ] US, Canada, æ-raising
  • /ˈkaŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence
  • /ˈkaŋ/ (Midlands, Northern-England)
  • [ˈkeɪ̯ŋ] US, Canada, æ-raising
  • [ˈkæːŋ] (Australia)
  • /ˈkaŋ/ (British, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
  • /ˈkæŋ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation) without æ-raising
  • [ˈkæŋ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation) without æ-raising
  • /ˈkeɪ̯ŋ/ US, Canada, æ-raising
  • [ˈkɛːŋ] ~ [ˈkeːŋ] (Australia) æ-raising
  • /ˈkæːŋ/ (Australia)

Etymology

From the Internet meme we wuz kangz, with the word kang itself ultimately from king, referring to the pharaohs, from which Afrocentrist nationalists claim to be descended.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, alt-of, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of king
    alt of king

Forms

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kangs Number=Plur lexicographic
kangz Number=Plur lexicographic

kang en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • [ˈkɛ̃ŋ] US, Canada, æ-raising
  • /ˈkaŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence
  • /ˈkaŋ/ (Midlands, Northern-England)
  • [ˈkeɪ̯ŋ] US, Canada, æ-raising
  • [ˈkæːŋ] (Australia)
  • /ˈkaŋ/ (British, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
  • /ˈkæŋ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation) without æ-raising
  • [ˈkæŋ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation) without æ-raising
  • /ˈkeɪ̯ŋ/ US, Canada, æ-raising
  • [ˈkɛːŋ] ~ [ˈkeːŋ] (Australia) æ-raising
  • /ˈkæːŋ/ (Australia)

Etymology

From the Internet meme we wuz kangz, with the word kang itself ultimately from king, referring to the pharaohs, from which Afrocentrist nationalists claim to be descended.

Meanings

  1. (India, transitive) To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians.

Forms

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kangs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
kanged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
kanged Tense=Past lexicographic
kanging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

kang en · VERB · etymology 4

Etymology

Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.

Forms

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kangs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
kanging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
kanged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
kanged Tense=Past lexicographic