kang

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4

Definition of kang

12 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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.”
  2. A large Chinese water jar.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of kangaroo.
  4. (Internet, alt-of, nonstandard)Nonstandard form of king

verb

  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.
  3. (slang)To appropriate someone else's work.

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A surname.
  3. (alt-of, alternative)A surname.
  4. (alt-of, alternative)A surname.
  5. (alt-of, alternative)A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

Anagrams of kang

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2-letter words

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