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nounPlural fangs, Plural Fangsfaŋfæŋ 1A member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Example sentencesExamples - Like most of the Bantu people, the Fangs belong to the Congo racial type of the Black African race, with some Sudanese contributions.
- The Fang migrated into their current area from the northeast in recent centuries as small groups or families of nomadic agriculturalists.
2mass noun The Bantu language of the Fang, with over 500,000 speakers. Example sentencesExamples - Most people's daily lives are conducted in tribal languages, either Fang, Bubi, or Ibo, all of which are in the Bantu family of languages.
- Fang is the major language of three countries on the west coast of Africa. It is spoken in southern Cameroon by about 1½ million people.
adjectivefaŋfæŋ Relating to the Fang or their language. Example sentencesExamples - The harmonious, balanced contours of reliquary guardian figures convey a sense of tranquility highly valued in both art and life in Fang culture.
- While each of the lesser groups has developed dialectic differences, the whole Fang language is basically one.
Origin French, probably from Fang Pangwe. nounPlural fangs, Plural Fangs faŋfæŋ 1A large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf. the dog was bounding towards him, its fangs bared Example sentencesExamples - The white dragon took a few bold steps towards him and bared its sharp fangs.
- Gemini shouted a warning as the canine bared its fangs and leaped towards them.
- I looked under and behind me to see the wolf flash its fangs and sharp teeth at me, giving another howl.
- As the wolf drew nearer, fangs bared ready to pounce, I closed my eyes and waited for the wolf to hit…
- There was no need for me to look up to find every single pair of hungry wolf eyes glaring at me, fangs bared and growling.
- 1.1 The tooth of a venomous snake, by which poison is injected.
the snake buries its fangs in its victim's neck Example sentencesExamples - Poisonous snakes kill with the venom that passes through their fangs, paralyzing their prey.
- Diengo flinched as the small snake's fang sunk in his skin.
- They have venom fangs, and a patch on their neck where poison spores can be launched.
- There I find something worse than a gun wound - a brown snake with its fangs in my arm.
- He had noticed that the snake had blood on its fangs when he was retrieving Juu's knife.
- Typical bites inject up to 600 mg of venom through fangs as long as your thumb, and just 100 mg will kill a man.
- The snake slithered toward Jessica, bearing its fangs with a hiss.
- Joey opened it slowly, and out popped a furry snake, baring its fangs.
- You take the brown snake, its fang length is about 2-millimetres, and in one of the patients that we had, the spider actually bit straight through someone's fingernail.
- The snake had dislodged its fangs, slithering after her with sureness of the ground it moved upon, then climbed up a tree.
- Occasionally, it would bury its fangs into the neck of its steed, ripping flesh and bone off.
- It was the picture of an oval blue stone, a green snake with long fangs wrapped around it.
- The snake tried to hit me by striking its deadly fangs at me.
- But before the snake demon's fangs could get in too deep, it collapsed, headless.
- Burmese pythons like a meal they can really get their fangs around, especially since the snakes are known to go half a year or more between meals.
- They have no hidden poison glands, not claws or fangs.
- Persistent myths about sea snakes include the mistaken idea that their short fangs cannot bite very effectively.
- The informant was skilled at what he did and made sure the snake's fangs went in to the same two holes from the needles he had made earlier.
- No slow toxin drips from the fangs of a jungle snake; already the mouse is being digested before it is even swallowed.
- This particular snake is said to have the largest fangs of all the venomous snakes in the world.
- 1.2 The biting mouthpart of a spider.
the spider kills its victims with venomous fangs Example sentencesExamples - The spiders have very large fangs and it causes considerable pain when it bites and it'll leave obvious fang marks that will usually bleed at the time.
- In true spiders, the chelicerae are modified into fangs with poison glands, while the pedipalps of the males are modified for copulation.
- On accosting a prey, tarantulas paralyse it by sinking the fangs and injecting venom.
- I even had to clean behind the dreaded tank-and if you were a spider with big drippy fangs and fuzzy legs, where do you think you would hide?
- Venom injected via a spider's fangs acts in various other ways, such as to kill or immobilize prey and to begin the process of digesting its meal.
Derivatives adjectiveˈfaŋdfæŋd He gave a laugh that was more a snarl, barring gleaming white fanged teeth at my little joke. Example sentencesExamples - He has small black bull horns, glowing red reptile eyes, dark brown fanged teeth, and extremely pale white skin.
- The jaw line was drastically altered; canines now were substituted with long fanged teeth.
- With visions of poisonous spiders and fanged monsters lurking in hollow trees creeping around in my brain, I tentatively put my hand into the hole.
- With its body obscured by murky waters, an ancient fanged reptile may have used its long neck to lunge at fish and squid.
adjective This powerful and large snake - averaging 4 to 5 feet long - looks scary, but is fangless and will rarely be spotted, since it will avoid people. Example sentencesExamples - I flashed my biggest, goofiest smile to reassure her that I was fangless.
- Flightless, fangless, clawless, slow, and weak, he isn't physically prepossessing.
- The president's proposal is about as fangless as telling burglars that they have to give the loot back if they get caught.
- It has its moments, but considering its pedigree it comes off as a fangless, flashy disappointment.
Origin Late Old English (denoting booty or spoils), from Old Norse fang 'capture, grasp'; compare with vang. A sense 'trap, snare' is recorded from the mid 16th century; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense (also mid 16th century) reflects the same notion of 'something that catches and holds'. Fang first meant booty or spoils. It comes from Old Norse fang ‘to capture, grasp’. A sense ‘trap, snare’ is recorded from the mid 16th century; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense ‘large, sharp tooth’ (also mid 16th) reflects the same notion of ‘something that catches and holds’.
Rhymes bang, Battambang, bhang, clang, Da Nang, dang, gang, hang, harangue, kiang, Kuomintang, Kweiyang, Laing, Luang Prabang, meringue, Nanchang, Pahang, pang, parang, Penang, prang, Pyongyang, rang, sang, satang, Shang, shebang, Shenyang, slambang, slang, spang, sprang, Sturm und Drang, tang, thang, trepang, twang, vang, whang, Xizang, yang, Zaozhuang verbfangs faŋfæŋ Australian informal Drive at high speed. no object let's fang up to the beach! Example sentencesExamples - The front of his car is completely bent from where he fanged it into the gutter.
- Handling is pretty well neutral for a front-wheel-drive car, though those models aren't really intended to be fanged along as understeer will eventually enter the equation.
- Our family car was a 1959 FC Holden station wagon which dad always insisted on driving well below the speed limit, while my mum fanged around in a Hillman Hunter.
nounPlural fangs, Plural Fangsfaŋfæŋ Australian informal A high-speed drive in a car. Example sentencesExamples - By heck, all that noise, power and speed puts you in the mood for a fang in a red sporty jobbie...
- Apparently this guy had a Jag XJ220 Supercar being serviced somewhere and the mechanic took it for a fang out to West Head years ago when it was in for service, crashed it and nearly wrote it off.
Origin 1960s: from the name of J. M. Fangio (see Fangio, Juan Manuel). nounfæŋfaNG 1A member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Example sentencesExamples - The Fang migrated into their current area from the northeast in recent centuries as small groups or families of nomadic agriculturalists.
- Like most of the Bantu people, the Fangs belong to the Congo racial type of the Black African race, with some Sudanese contributions.
2The Bantu language of the Fang. Example sentencesExamples - Fang is the major language of three countries on the west coast of Africa. It is spoken in southern Cameroon by about 1½ million people.
- Most people's daily lives are conducted in tribal languages, either Fang, Bubi, or Ibo, all of which are in the Bantu family of languages.
adjectivefæŋfaNG Relating to the Fang or their language. Example sentencesExamples - While each of the lesser groups has developed dialectic differences, the whole Fang language is basically one.
- The harmonious, balanced contours of reliquary guardian figures convey a sense of tranquility highly valued in both art and life in Fang culture.
Origin French, probably from Fang Pangwe. nounfaNGfæŋ 1A large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf. Example sentencesExamples - As the wolf drew nearer, fangs bared ready to pounce, I closed my eyes and waited for the wolf to hit…
- There was no need for me to look up to find every single pair of hungry wolf eyes glaring at me, fangs bared and growling.
- Gemini shouted a warning as the canine bared its fangs and leaped towards them.
- The white dragon took a few bold steps towards him and bared its sharp fangs.
- I looked under and behind me to see the wolf flash its fangs and sharp teeth at me, giving another howl.
- 1.1 The tooth of a venomous snake, by which poison is injected.
Example sentencesExamples - Poisonous snakes kill with the venom that passes through their fangs, paralyzing their prey.
- The snake slithered toward Jessica, bearing its fangs with a hiss.
- He had noticed that the snake had blood on its fangs when he was retrieving Juu's knife.
- Diengo flinched as the small snake's fang sunk in his skin.
- This particular snake is said to have the largest fangs of all the venomous snakes in the world.
- It was the picture of an oval blue stone, a green snake with long fangs wrapped around it.
- Persistent myths about sea snakes include the mistaken idea that their short fangs cannot bite very effectively.
- They have no hidden poison glands, not claws or fangs.
- Occasionally, it would bury its fangs into the neck of its steed, ripping flesh and bone off.
- The snake tried to hit me by striking its deadly fangs at me.
- There I find something worse than a gun wound - a brown snake with its fangs in my arm.
- Burmese pythons like a meal they can really get their fangs around, especially since the snakes are known to go half a year or more between meals.
- Typical bites inject up to 600 mg of venom through fangs as long as your thumb, and just 100 mg will kill a man.
- But before the snake demon's fangs could get in too deep, it collapsed, headless.
- You take the brown snake, its fang length is about 2-millimetres, and in one of the patients that we had, the spider actually bit straight through someone's fingernail.
- The snake had dislodged its fangs, slithering after her with sureness of the ground it moved upon, then climbed up a tree.
- The informant was skilled at what he did and made sure the snake's fangs went in to the same two holes from the needles he had made earlier.
- Joey opened it slowly, and out popped a furry snake, baring its fangs.
- They have venom fangs, and a patch on their neck where poison spores can be launched.
- No slow toxin drips from the fangs of a jungle snake; already the mouse is being digested before it is even swallowed.
- 1.2 The biting mouthpart of a spider.
Example sentencesExamples - The spiders have very large fangs and it causes considerable pain when it bites and it'll leave obvious fang marks that will usually bleed at the time.
- On accosting a prey, tarantulas paralyse it by sinking the fangs and injecting venom.
- I even had to clean behind the dreaded tank-and if you were a spider with big drippy fangs and fuzzy legs, where do you think you would hide?
- Venom injected via a spider's fangs acts in various other ways, such as to kill or immobilize prey and to begin the process of digesting its meal.
- In true spiders, the chelicerae are modified into fangs with poison glands, while the pedipalps of the males are modified for copulation.
Origin Late Old English (denoting booty or spoils), from Old Norse fang ‘capture, grasp’; compare with vang. A sense ‘trap, snare’ is recorded from the mid 16th century; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense (also mid 16th century) reflects the same notion of ‘something that catches and holds’. verbfaNGfæŋ Australian informal Drive at high speed. no object let's fang up to the beach! Example sentencesExamples - Our family car was a 1959 FC Holden station wagon which dad always insisted on driving well below the speed limit, while my mum fanged around in a Hillman Hunter.
- Handling is pretty well neutral for a front-wheel-drive car, though those models aren't really intended to be fanged along as understeer will eventually enter the equation.
- The front of his car is completely bent from where he fanged it into the gutter.
nounfaNGfæŋ Australian informal A high-speed drive in a car. Example sentencesExamples - By heck, all that noise, power and speed puts you in the mood for a fang in a red sporty jobbie...
- Apparently this guy had a Jag XJ220 Supercar being serviced somewhere and the mechanic took it for a fang out to West Head years ago when it was in for service, crashed it and nearly wrote it off.
Origin 1960s: from the name of J. M. Fangio (see Fangio, Juan Manuel). |