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fang

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"Sharp animal tooth"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈfæŋ/Part of speech nounSorted afgnStarts with FEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison

Word origin

From clipping of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below.

Used in a sentence

  • The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.
  • chariots fang'd with scythes
  • Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

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