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Tanged vs Fanged - What's the difference?

tanged | fanged |

As verbs the difference between tanged and fanged

is that tanged is (tang) while fanged is (fang).

As adjectives the difference between tanged and fanged

is that tanged is having a tang while fanged is equipped with fangs.

tanged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tang)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a tang.

    • Anagrams

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    fanged

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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]
    • 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 ...

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fang)

    • Anagrams

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