Fang vs Umbrage - What's the difference?
fang | umbrage |
(transitive, dialectal, or, archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
* J. Webster
(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.
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
(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.
a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
(in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
(rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
* Philips
Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
* , Episode 16
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, 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
To displease or cause offense.
To shade.
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)- He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fang, .Noun
(en noun)- the protuberant fangs of the yucca
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- chariots fanged with scythes
umbrage
English
Noun
(en noun)- --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
- [...] 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.