fang

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
2. A long pointed tooth in snakes, for injecting venom.
3. Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.

Verb

1. To strike or attack with the fangs.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

Verb

1. To catch, capture; seize.
2. (obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
3. (obsolete) To receive with hospitality.
4. (obsolete) To receive.
5. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Verb

To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

Verb

To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/fæŋ/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“canine tooth”, literally “snag-tooth, catch-tooth”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand.