fanged

English

Etymology

From fang +‎ -ed.

Adjective

fanged (not comparable)

1. Equipped with fangs.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     […] 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 July, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     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

• bifanged
• fire-fanged
• two-fanged

Translations

Translations

• German: bezahnt
• Welsh: ysgithrog (cy)

Verb

fanged

1. simple past and past participle of fang

Anagrams

• defang, fag end, fag-end