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[ fang ]
/ fæŋ /
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Origin of fang

1
First recorded before 1050; Middle English “prey, purchase, spoils,” Old English: “booty”; cognate with German Fang “capture, booty,” Old Norse fang “a grasp, hold”; see also fang2

OTHER WORDS FROM fang

fanged [fangd], /fæŋd/, adjectivefang·less, adjectivefang·like, adjectiveun·fanged, adjective

Other definitions for fang (2 of 3)

fang2
[ fang ]
/ fæŋ /

verb (used with object) British Dialect.
to seize; grab.

Origin of fang

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First recorded before 900; Middle English fangen, fengen, earlier and Old English fon “to seize, catch”; cognate with Old Saxon fangan and fahan, German fangen and fahen, Old Icelandic fangan and

Other definitions for fang (3 of 3)

Fang
[ fang, fahng, fahn ]
/ fæŋ, fɑŋ, fɑ̃ /

noun, plural Fangs, (especially collectively) Fang for 1.
Also called Pahouin, Pangwe. a member of an Indigenous people of Gabon, Cameroon, and adjacent areas.
the Bantu language spoken by this people.
Also Fan [fan, fahn] /fæn, fɑn/ .
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British Dictionary definitions for fang (1 of 3)

fang1
/ (fæŋ) /

noun
the long pointed hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake through which venom is injected
any large pointed tooth, esp the canine or carnassial tooth of a carnivorous mammal
the root of a tooth
(usually plural) British informal toothclean your fangs

Derived forms of fang

fanged, adjectivefangless, adjectivefanglike, adjective

Word Origin for fang

Old English fang what is caught, prey; related to Old Norse fang a grip, German Fang booty

British Dictionary definitions for fang (2 of 3)

fang2
/ (fæŋ) Australian informal /

verb (intr)
to drive at great speed
noun
an act or instance of driving in such a waywe took the car for a fang

Word Origin for fang

C20: from Juan Manuel Fangio

British Dictionary definitions for fang (3 of 3)

Fang
/ (fæŋ, fɑːŋ) /

noun
plural Fangs or Fang a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the rain forests of Gabon and Rio Muni: noted for their use of iron and copper money and for their sculpture
the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
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Scientific definitions for fang

fang
[ făng ]

A long, pointed tooth in vertebrate animals or a similar structure in spiders, used to seize prey and sometimes to inject venom. The fangs of a poisonous snake, for example, have a hollow groove through which venom flows.
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