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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
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:
A large Chinese water jar.
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k'ang
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kangs
Number=Plur
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kang en · NOUN · etymology 2
Meanings
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of kangaroo.
/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
(Internet, alt-of, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of king
/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
(India, transitive) To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
(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.
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kangs
Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres
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kanged
Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part
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kanged
Tense=Past
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kanging
Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part
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kang en · VERB · etymology 4
Etymology
Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.
Meanings
(qualifier:Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.