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fangish en · ADJ

Etymology

From fang + -ish.

Meanings

  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or in possession of fangs.
    • The same liquid apparently presently being sucked up by her own teeth, which had grown decidedly fangish. 2007, Lynsay Sands, Bite Me If You Can, page 72:
    • hear how they grind their fangish teeth ; and read their horrors in their hungry eyes !" 1862, Dante Alighieri, translated by W. P. Wilkie, The Inferno, page 126:
    • A narrow forked tongue as red as blood slithered out from between two long fangish teeth and flickered in the air. 1999, Jeff Crook, The Rose and the Skull, page 133:

Forms

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most fangish Degree=Sup lexicographic
more fangish Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

fanglike