: a member of a Bantu-speaking people of northern Gabon, mainland Equatorial Guinea, and southern Cameroon
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: the language of the Fang people
Example Sentences
Noun (1) the fangs of a rattlesnake a tiger baring its fangs
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
What no one knows yet is just how sharp its fangs are. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 30 May 2020 Declines in consumption as sugar grew fangs in the public sphere.USA Today, 13 May 2020 Molly After showing her fangs at her new law firm, Molly (Yvonne Orji) remains on top professionally. Keyaira Boone, Essence, 11 Apr. 2020 But this week, as COVID-19 sank its fangs deeper into the region, declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization, the crowd at the restaurant shrunk to half the usual number. Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 14 Mar. 2020 Nia is obsessed with vampire fiction, so AJ pretends to be a vampire, with Halloween fangs and fake blood. Maria Russo, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020 Commonly, this training involves introducing the dog to a rattlesnake without fangs or venom. John Gordon, Outdoor Life, 11 Feb. 2020 Jolie plays Maleficent’s struggle to connect both for laughs — yikes, those fangs! — and pathos.BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019 At their wildest, the girls fuse into a wolf pack, donning fangs and snarling at the moon. Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, that which is taken, from Old English; akin to Old High German fang seizure, Old English fōn to seize — more at pact
ADJECTIVE | VERB + FANGADJECTIVE➤long長牙▸➤sharp尖牙➤white白色的長牙VERB + FANG➤bare, reveal, show露出牙◇The wolf growled and bared its sharp fangs.那匹狼嚎叫着,露出鋒利的牙齒。➤sink將牙咬入◇The snake sank its fangs into its victim.蛇將毒牙刺入獵物身體中。