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twank

(twaŋk)

vb (intr)

to make a sharply curtailed twang

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But really it's a load of twank, Cos when I graduate I'm with a merchant bank!

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In Deniehy's 1860 satire, How I Became Attorney-General of New Barataria, Dalley was caricatured as 'Tiptop' (to Deniehy's 'Twank'), nature's gentleman, full of grace and brilliance, but with a foppish passion for the aristocratic, and whose head could be turned by prosperity.

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(1.) "To Twank" (Daniel Deniehy) in Elizabeth Perkins, ed., The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1984), p.49.

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"I'm directing it and playing Widow Twank T ey in it as well - and this will be my 38th panto," says this Mr Versatile.

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Of course, netty was one of the many words used in our vocabulary known as Geordie twank.