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"FANGS" is a plural of: fang. |
Date "FANGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fangs I fell into his fangs. Into his power, his clutches. (Anglo-Saxon, fang, a grasp.) "To seize. Traitors, that vice-like fang the hand ye lick." Bailey: Festus (A Village Feast), sec. 9. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Authority | Hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway; (severity); fangs, clutches, talons; rod of empire; (scepter). |
Retention | Fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum; bond; (vinculum). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FANGS |
| English words defined with "FANGS": Boomslange ♦ centipede ♦ defang ♦ fanged, Fangless ♦ murderously ♦ Opisthoglypha ♦ pit viper, Proteroglypha ♦ Root of a tooth ♦ Solenoglypha, Solifugae ♦ Toxoglossa ♦ Venomous snake, viper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FANGS": Controversy ♦ Deaf Adder ♦ Eye-teeth ♦ Madstone ♦ Snake Venoms ♦ Venoms. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No, are you planning on sprouting horns, growing fangs and eating us? (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Biggest puddle of'em all, angel fangs, the Atlantic Ocean. (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick) You've got great big fangs. (Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak; writing credit: Pete Smith) | |
Lyrics | Like Dracula without his fangs, ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dragon's Fangs (1966) Fangs of the Wild (1954) Tiger Fangs (1943) Fangs of the Wild (1939) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. |
Marcus T. Cicero | Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the same time a huge face, bristly and dirty, appeared in the doorway with a hideous laugh, which showed not teeth, but fangs. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet. In controversy with the facile tongue -- That bloodless warfare of the old and young -- So seek your adversary to engage That on himself he shall exhaust his rage, And, like a snake that's fastened to the ground, With his own fangs inflict the fatal wound. You ask me how this miracle is done? Adopt his own opinions, one by one, And taunt him to refute them; in his wrath He'll sweep them pitilessly from his path. Advance then gently all you wish to prove, Each proposition prefaced with, "As you've So well remarked," or, "As you wisely say, And I cannot dispute," or, "By the way, This view of it which, better far expressed, Runs through your argument." Then leave the rest To him, secure that he'll perform his trust And prove your views intelligent and just. Conmore Apel Brune |
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| "FANGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.05% of the time. "FANGS" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.05% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.95% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FANGS": dagger-fangs. | |
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| Language | Translations for "FANGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gebiss (bit, dentures, set of teeth, teeth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | angsfay defesas (horns, ivory, tushes, tusks). (various references) kljove. (various references) gaddar (ivories). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FANGS": defangs, firefangs. (additional references) | |
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"FANGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: angs, famg, fanga, fangas, fange, fango, fangu, fangy, fanos, fanus, fanys, fawg, Fehg, feng, Fengu, Fingas, fng, fong, fons, frang, jang, vangs, yangs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FANGS" (pronounced fa"ngz) |
| 3 | -a" ng z | bangs, gangs, hangs, harangues, pangs, tangs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-n-s" | |
-1 letter: fags, fang, fans, nags, sang, snag. | |
-2 letters: fag, fan, fas, gan, gas, nag, sag. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, as, fa, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-n-s" | |
+1 letter: fagins, fangas, ganefs, ganofs. | |
+2 letters: afghans, defangs, facings, fadings, fanegas, fashing, fasting, feasing, flagons, flanges, fungals. | |
+3 letters: afghanis, engrafts, failings, fairings, fangless, farmings, fastings, fatlings, feasting, fenagles, finagles, flangers, flashgun, flashing, framings, frayings, ingrafts, scarfing, shafting, sheafing, snafuing, staffing, strafing. | |
+4 letters: angelfish, basifying, casefying, draftings, fagotings, famishing, fandangos, fanegadas, fanlights, farseeing, farthings, fastening, figurants, finaglers, firefangs, flaggings, flagstone, flamingos, flashguns, flashings, flatlings, flexagons, forsaking, fraggings, fragments, franglais, frontages, fumigants, gasifying, gonfalons, gonfanons, hangfires, langlaufs, magnifies, safariing, safetying, salifying, sangfroid, sclaffing, seafaring, shaftings, snaffling, suffragan, sulfating, surfacing, wafflings. | |
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