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[faŋ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf
(e.g: the dog was bounding towards him, its fangs bared)
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Origin
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late Old English fang (denoting booty or spoils), from Old Norse fang ‘capture, grasp’; compare with vang. A sense ‘trap, snare’ is recorded from the mid 16th century; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense (also mid 16th century) reflects the same notion of ‘something that catches and holds’
[faŋ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- drive at high speed
(e.g: let's fang up to the beach!)
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Origin
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1960s: from the name of J. M. Fangio (see Fangio, Juan Manuel)
[faŋ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a high-speed drive in a car
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Origin
:
1960s: from the name of J. M. Fangio (see Fangio, Juan Manuel)
[faŋ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon
- the Bantu language of the Fang, with over 500,000 speakers
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Origin
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French, probably from Fang Pangwe
[faŋ], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- relating to the Fang or their language
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Origin
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French, probably from Fang Pangwe
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