Synonyms for fang

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fang

Phonetic Transcription : fæŋ

Top 10 synonyms for fang

Other synonyms for the word fang

Définition of fang

Origin : Old English fang "prey, spoils, plunder, booty; a seizing or taking," from gefangen, past participle of fon "seize, take, capture," from Proto-Germanic *fango- (cf. Old Frisian fangia, Middle Dutch and Dutch vangen, Old Norse fanga, German fangen, Gothic fahan), from PIE root *pag- "to make firm, fix;" connected to Latin pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see pact).
The sense of "canine tooth" (1550s) probably developed from Old English fengtoð, literally "catching- or grasping-tooth." Transferred to the venom tooth of a serpent, etc., by 1800.

As in teeth : noun dentition
As in tooth : noun a hard bony structure in the jaws of vertebrates
As in teeth : noun plural of tooth
As in tooth : noun bony object in mouth
As in tusk : noun large tooth
As in claw : noun nail of animal; tool shaped like nail of an animal
As in cog : noun main part of device
As in digit : noun small appendage of animate being

Example sentences :

First he has to be broken in, to learn "the law of club and fang."
Extract from : « A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties » by Charles Major

"It's a wise fellow who wrenches forth the serpent's fang," shouted he.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 » by Various

By this time tomorrow, I hope that we will be forever done with the law of claw and fang.
Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith

She's done for at lasht—an' blade to fang, in open foight ye've knoifed her!
Extract from : « The Promise » by James B. Hendryx

They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.
Extract from : « The Call of the Wild » by Jack London

The cold-blooded snake that had stung her met the fang of the cobra-capella.
Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"That's a compromise, I reckon," observed Holgate with a grin, which showed his fang.
Extract from : « Hurricane Island » by H. B. Marriott Watson

He had always torn at the edges of the hole with fang and claw.
Extract from : « Connie Morgan in the Fur Country » by James B. Hendryx

There is no poison like the love of a profligate; the fang of an adder is not more potent.
Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens

I knew he was shamming, said Fang, as if this were incontestable proof of the fact.
Extract from : « Oliver Twist, Vol. I (of 3) » by Charles Dickens

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