fanged

English

Etymology

fang +‎ -ed

Adjective

fanged (not comparable)

1. Equipped with fangs.
   • 1826, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man‎^[1]:

     ...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^[2]:

     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
• two-fanged

Verb

fanged

1. simple past and past participle of fang

Anagrams

• defang, fag end, fag-end