Other forms: fangs
A fang is one of the long sharp teeth of a snake or wolf. Bared its fangs, a snake's fangs, sink its fangs in.
In venomous snakes they are hollow or grooved and work like needles, and some fold flat against the roof of the mouth until needed. The word came from an Old English verb meaning to seize, so a fang is literally a catcher.
1nounfangA long sharp tooth of a snake or wolf.
“The wolf bared its fangs and growled at the dogs.”
fang is a tooth.
Also accepted in games: fangs
Old English fengtoth means a catching tooth, from fon, to seize. The word was later shortened.
Old English
fengtōþ — molar tooth
Middle English
*fangtooth
English, today
fang
Built from
From clipping of fangtooth, from Middle English fangtooth, fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”) literally “catch-tooth” and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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