fangful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
noun
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."