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fang | umbrage |

As a noun umbrage is

feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

As a verb umbrage is

to displease or cause offense.

fang

English

(wikipedia fang)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fangen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
  • * J. Webster
  • He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged .
    (Shakespeare)
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
  • (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
  • (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
  • (dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fang, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  • That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  • Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
  • * Evelyn
  • the protuberant fangs of the yucca
  • (mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
  • (rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
  • (nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
  • (nautical) The valve of a pump box.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.
  • Etymology 3

    From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from (etyl) *.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
  • (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
  • To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
  • * Philips
  • chariots fanged with scythes
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    umbrage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
  • * , Episode 16
  • --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VI , passage=If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.}}
  • Feeling of doubt.
  • Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees
  • (obsolete) shadow, shade
  • * 1602 , , act V scene 1
  • [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage , nothing more.

    Synonyms

    * (feeling of anger or annoyance) annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique * (feeling of doubt) suspicion

    Derived terms

    * take umbrage * umbrageous

    Verb

    (umbrag)
  • To displease or cause offense.
  • To shade.