Meanings
adjectivefanged (not comparable)
- not comparableEquipped with fangs.
He sat by John Thornton's fire, a broad-breasted dog, white fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves ...
1903 July, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC1 more example
[…]love, the tyrant and the tyrant-queller; love, until now my conqueror, now my slave; the hungry fire, the untameable beast, the fanged snake -- -no -- no -- I will have nothing to do with that love.
1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of fang
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German bezahnt
- bezahntTranslations
Welsh ysgithrog
- ysgithrogTranslations
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APA
fanged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fanged
MLA
“fanged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fanged. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fanged,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fanged.
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