Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
hung [huhng] Examples verb
- simple past tense and past participle of hang.
adjective
- Slang: Vulgar. (of a male) having very large genitals.
Idioms
- hung over, Informal. suffering the effects of a hangover: On New Year’s Day the houseguests were all hung over.Also hungover.
- hung up, Informal.
- detained unavoidably.
- stymied or baffled by a problem.
- Baseball, Softball.(of a base runner) trapped between bases and in danger of being tagged out.
- hung up on, Slang.
- obsessed by: a clerk hung up on petty details.
- infatuated with.
Related formsun·hung, adjectivewell-hung, adjectiveCan be confusedhanged hung (see usage note at hang)Usage note See hang. Examples from the Web for well-hung Contemporary Examples of well-hung
In his portrait of a castrato, Andrea Sacchi let a well-hung Apollo make up for the singer’s loss.
The Best of 2013’s Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik
Blake Gopnik
December 26, 2013
The Daily Pic: In his portrait of a castrato, Andrea Sacchi let a well-hung Apollo make up for the singer’s loss.
Blake Gopnik
September 16, 2013
A hole, though shaped like an ellipse, in which this well-hung stud had placed it would look as if a compass traced it.
Read This and Blush: Naughty Medieval French Tales
Yunte Huang
June 13, 2013
You grab hold of the Ben Roethlisberger redemption issue for dear life like a hot brand to a well-hung bull.
Super Bowl: The Best That Never Was!
Buzz Bissinger
February 4, 2011
Historical Examples of well-hung
Nothing is easier than for a lady to open a well-hung and well-latched gate, the hinges of which are on the off side.
Vielle Moustache
Teams of horses and oxen are born under the Twins, and well-hung wenchers and those who bedung both sides of the wall.
Petronius Arbiter
Take a well-hung young pheasant, cut it when prepared into neat joints.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode
Harriet A. de Salis
Put a well-hung pheasant in a buttered stewpan with three ounces of good beef dripping and six ounces of ham cut into dice.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode
Harriet A. de Salis
The shoe knew it all well, and told a whole lot in a few minutes, because she had such a well-hung tongue.
Brothers of the Christian Schools
British Dictionary definitions for well-hung well-hung adjective (well hung when postpositive)
- (of game) hung for a sufficient length of time
- slang (of a man) having large genitals
hung verb
- the usual past tense and past participle of hang
adjective
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- (of a legislative assembly) not having a party with a working majoritya hung parliament
- unable to reach a decisiona hung jury
- (of a situation) unable to be resolved
- hung over informal suffering from the effects of a hangover
- hung up slang
- impeded by some difficulty or delay
- in a state of confusion; emotionally disturbed
- hung up on slang obsessively or exclusively interested inhe’s hung up on modern art these days
usage For most senses of hang the past tense and past participle is hung : I hung the curtains; he had hung the new painting on the wall . However, when the meaning is ‘to suspend or be suspended by the neck until dead’, the past tense and past participle is hanged : the traitors were hanged; they had hanged him at dawn . This form is also used in the idiom I’ll be hanged Word Origin and History for well-hung adj.
1610s, in male genital sense, from well (adv.) + past participle of hang.
hung adj.
past tense of hang; meaning “having impressive male genitals” is from 1640s; of a jury, “unable to agree,” 1838, American English. Hung-over (also hungover) in the drinking sense is from 1950 (see hangover); hung-up “obsessed” is from 1961.