Fangled vs Fanged - What's the difference?
fangled | fanged |
(fangle)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To waste time; trifle.
(obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
A conceit; whim.
Equipped with fangs.
* 1826 , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=577940525&textreg=1&query=+fanged&id=SheLast]
*:...love, the tyrant and the tyrant-queller; love, until now my conqueror, now my slave; the hungry fire, the untameable beast, the fanged snake -- -no -- no -- I will have nothing to do with that love.
* 1903 , Jack London, Call of the Wild [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=447240988&textreg=1&query=+fanged&id=LonCall]
(fang)
As verbs the difference between fangled and fanged
is that fangled is (fangle) while fanged is (fang).As an adjective fanged is
equipped with fangs.fangled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fangle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(fangl)- To control and new fangle the Scripture.
Usage notes
Although obsolete in general English, the verb is still occasionally used in some regions, and is retained in the expression new fangled.Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Derived erroneously from as if (new) + fangle. See (l).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*fanged
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He sat by John Thornton's fire, a broad-breasted dog, white fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves ...