fang

Oznaczający

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.

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/fæŋ/

Etymologia

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.