fanged

English

Etymology

fang +‎ -ed

Adjective

fanged (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with fangs.
    • 1826, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man‎:
      ...love, the tyrant and the tyrant-queller; love, until now my conqueror, now my slave; the hungry fire, the untameable beast, the fanged snake -- -no -- no -- I will have nothing to do with that love.
    • 1903, Jack London, Call of the Wild‎:
      He sat by John Thornton's fire, a broad-breasted dog, white fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves ...

Derived terms

Verb

fanged

  1. simple past tense and past participle of fang

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