fanged
English
Etymology
Adjective
fanged (not comparable)
- 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
Verb
fanged
- simple past and past participle of fang