fangful

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
    — 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.
  2. An amount sufficient to fill a fanged creature's mouth.
    — We heard how two copperheads line each side of the Frail to bite hikers as they pass, assuring at least one of the snakes a fangful.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having sharp or menacing fangs.
    — Cerberus, soon as our adit he espied, Quivering in every limb for anger, wide Opened his fangful mouths, and at us gnasht.
  2. Cruel or venomous. idiomatic
    — 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.

词形变化

more fangful comparative most fangful superlative fangfuls plural

词源

词源 1
From fang + -ful (“possessing”).
词源 2
From fang + -ful (“suffix forming nouns denoting an amount”).
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