Meaning

Having sharp or menacing fangs..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having sharp or menacing fangs.
2. (idiomatic) Cruel or venomous.
3. An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
4. An amount sufficient to fill a fanged creature's mouth.

Example Sentences

Cerberus, soon as our adit he espied, Quivering in every limb for anger, wide Opened his fangful mouths, and at us gnasht.

The cat was curled in a soft armchair close by the fire. She yawned a fangful yawn, stretched her claws and sat up.

As Kerin came abreast of the reptile, the lizard opened its eyes, looked around, and rose on stumpy legs. It swiveled about to face Kerin, scattering sand; it opened fangful jaws and hissed like a kettle.

Such a woman's affectional demonstrations, if not wholly vampiral, would be a wide departure from the truth ; would not be really human, but snakish, fangful, Judas-like, because utterly and wholly empty of all genuine heartness, that ineffable delight man sighs for and expects.

That have lookt forward to a dawning sweet, Upon my tongue they have been bitter. Oh, I drained the cup of scorn in those old days When laughter and detraction followed me From fangful packs of snarlers, e'er and aye

Often the Crane Dame and a few others like her were fangful, seemingly garbed in witches' outfits and spitting venom whenever I was in their presence.

With a howl of pain he grabbed the evil thing by the tail before it could sneak away. A big black cobra with its fangful of venom.

She lunged then, faster than Orsa had, something black and terrible in her face like a serpent about to unleash a fangful of venom.

Word Forms

• more fangful
• most fangful
• fangfuls

Synonyms for fangful

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