fang

Meaning

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. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

Verb

1. (archaic, dialectal, transitive) To catch, capture; seize.
2. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To take; receive with assent; accept.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To receive.
5. (dialectal, transitive) 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.

Synonyms

tusk

tooth

🦷

canine teeth

canine tooth

canine

claw

cuspid

ivory

root of a tooth

nail

pawl

prong

sting

stinger

tush

ungula

aculeus

toe-nail

large tooth

toxicognath

fish-tailed end

bayonet

of snake

bicuspid

detent

dogtooth

eyetooth

eye tooth

goad

hook

🪝

jaw

Translations

croc

🪝

Fangzahn

colmillo

Fang

presa

crochet

🪝

dente

🦷

ullal

hoektand

dente canino

Reißzahn

Zahnwurzel

dente di cane

canine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fæŋ/

Etymology

Cognate with German: Fangzahn

Cognate with Dutch: vangtand

Inherited from Middle English: fangen

Inherited from Old English: fōn

Cognate with Western Frisian: fange

Cognate with Dutch: vangen

Cognate with German: fangen

Cognate with Danish: fange

Cognate with Albanian: peng

Cognate with Sanskrit: पाशयति

Inherited from Middle English: fang

Inherited from Old English: fang

Cognate with Scots: fang

Cognate with Dutch: vang

Cognate with Low German: fangst

Cognate with German: Fang

Cognate with Swedish: fång

Cognate with Icelandic: fang

Cognate with Latin: pangere

Cognate with Albanian: mpij

Cognate with Ancient Greek: πήγνυμι

In summary

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.