Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a fang.

Etymologies

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fang +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Fire rages behind his greenish skin and fanglike teeth.

    Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009

  • As soon as he viewed the photo – those fanglike teeth, like something out of a horror movie – John Lundberg knew what the mystery creature was.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - How’d you like to find that in your grilled cheese? 2007

  • The fanglike teeth are what is sometimes called “British”: sturdy, if unevenly spaced, and have turned an alarming shade of yellow and brown, attributable perhaps to strong coffee as well as to nicotine, Pinot Noir, and other potations.

    On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part I Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • The image showed a typical Ferengi male: scooplike ears, bald and bulging head, wrinkled nose and forehead and a seemingly endless supply of fanglike teeth.

    DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

  • She had on the same grubby gown and shawl that she had been wearing yesterday, and in daylight, her gray trailing hair and fanglike teeth looked even more horrible than they had in the shadowed hall.

    To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

  • She had on the same grubby gown and shawl that she had been wearing yesterday, and in daylight, her gray trailing hair and fanglike teeth looked even more horrible than they had in the shadowed hall.

    To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

  • She had on the same grubby gown and shawl that she had been wearing yesterday, and in daylight, her gray trailing hair and fanglike teeth looked even more horrible than they had in the shadowed hall.

    To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

  • She had on the same grubby gown and shawl that she had been wearing yesterday, and in daylight, her gray trailing hair and fanglike teeth looked even more horrible than they had in the shadowed hall.

    To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

  • Rotapan grinned slyly, showing the two tiny, sharp fanglike teeth left him.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • Rotapan grinned slyly, showing the two tiny, sharp fanglike teeth left him.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

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