Manged vs Fanged - What's the difference?
manged | fanged |
Infected with mange; mangy.
(mang) 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 adjectives the difference between manged and fanged
is that manged is infected with mange; mangy while fanged is equipped with fangs.As verbs the difference between manged and fanged
is that manged is (mang) while fanged is (fang).manged
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
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Devonian EnglishVerb
(head)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 ...