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Word: deng (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pronounced deng-gay; from the Spanish denguero, affected or dandified-indicating the stiff or unnatural gait of the sufferer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine for Dengue | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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