fangish

English

Etymology

From fang +‎ -ish.

Adjective

fangish (comparative more fangish, superlative most fangish)

  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or in possession of fangs.
    Synonym: fanglike
    • 1862, Dante Alighieri, translated by W. P. Wilkie, The Inferno‎[1], page 126:
      hear how they grind their fangish teeth ;
      and read their horrors in their hungry eyes !"
    • 1999, Jeff Crook, The Rose and the Skull‎[2], page 133:
      A narrow forked tongue as red as blood slithered out from between two long fangish teeth and flickered in the air.
    • 2007, Lynsay Sands, Bite Me If You Can‎[3], page 72:
      The same liquid apparently presently being sucked up by her own teeth, which had grown decidedly fangish.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fangish.
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