Fangful
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
"With a howl of pain he grabbed the evil thing by the tail before it could sneak away. A big black cobra with its fangful of venom."
- 2 An amount sufficient to fill a fanged creature's mouth.
"We heard how two copperheads line each side of the Frail to bite hikers as they pass, assuring at least one of the snakes a fangful."
- 1 Having sharp or menacing fangs.
"Cerberus, soon as our adit he espied, Quivering in every limb for anger, wide Opened his fangful mouths, and at us gnasht."
- 2 Cruel or venomous. idiomatic
"Such a woman's affectional demonstrations, if not wholly vampiral, would be a wide departure from the truth ; would not be really human, but snakish, fangful, Judas-like, because utterly and wholly empty of all genuine heartness, that ineffable delight man sighs for and expects."
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More examples"Cerberus, soon as our adit he espied, Quivering in every limb for anger, wide Opened his fangful mouths, and at us gnasht."
Etymology
From fang + -ful (“possessing”).
From fang + -ful (“suffix forming nouns denoting an amount”).
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