fanged

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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 ...

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Verb

fanged

  1. simple past and past participle of fang

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