Word of the Day Archive
Monday May 6, 2013
spang \spang\
, adverb:
directly, exactly: The bullet landed spang on target.
He had been knocked spang out of his Keds.
-- Stephen King, Different Seasons, 1983
"And you say Stephanie has hidden this notebook in Daddy's cow-cream?" "Plumb spang in the cow-creamer."
-- P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters, 1938
Spang is an Americanism of uncertain origin. It first entered English in the 1830s.
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for spang
