Wanged vs Fanged - What's the difference?
wanged | fanged |
(wang)
(onomatopoeia) The sound made when a hollow metal object is struck a glancing blow.
A slap; a blow.
To batter; to clobber; to conk.
To throw hard.
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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 wanged and fanged
is that wanged is (wang) while fanged is (fang).As an adjective fanged is
equipped with fangs.wanged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
(onomatopoeia)Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Cc6bHeUtMxwC&pg=PA283&dq=%22wanged%22, %22wanging%22+-%22wanging%27ombe%22 , isbn=9780070456389 , page=283 , passage=Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=qzPuDN6CpEYC&pg=PA52&dq="wanged", "wanging" , isbn=9780192754059 , page=36 , passage=He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=BXIQvXs8NF4C&pg=PA132&dq="wanged", "wanging"+-"wanging'ombe" , isbn=9781594868238 , page=132 , passage=After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.}}
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain. Perhaps short for . See (l).Alternative forms
* whangAnagrams
* * ----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 ...