Fang

Definitions: Fang

Fang

Noun

1. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.

2. Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey.

3. Hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Fang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bane

Sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle.

Crosswords: Fang

Faeroese (bosom), German (capture, catch, Fang, fishing, haul, hunting, pounce, prey, scoop, talon, trapping), Scottish (a sheep-pen, a vulture, den, prison, sheep pen).

(accompanying Lawnmower Whammy) You'll see the Whammy mowin' the lawn, (accompanying Roller Skating Whammy) roller skating, (to Fang Chasing Cat) and even walkin' the dog! (Press Your Luck; writing credit: Leif G.W. Persson)

If he pops a fang in here, thwack him where it hurts. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

That's all I have to say. Oh, and someone'll need ter feed Fang while I'm away. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

Fang Shiyu xing Hong Xiguan (1974)

Qun fang pu (1974)

Qi shi er jia fang ke (1973)

Da sha san fang (1973)

Fang shiyu (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Tai Fang Foods Industry Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• San Fang Chemical Industrial Co Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Call of the Wild and White Fang (Cliffs Notes) (reference)

• Great Works of Jack London: The Call of the Wild White Fang the Sea-Wolf 40 Short Stories (Classics of World Literature) (reference)

• Jack London : Novels and Stories : Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories (Library of America) (reference)

• Lone Wolf and Cub, Volume 17: The Will of the Fang (reference)

• Silver Fang & Glass Walk (Tribe Novel, Book 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chung-hua Yu Fang I Hsueh Tsa Chih = Chinese Journal Of Prev (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• White Fang (reference)

• White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Plastic Fang (reference)

• Plastic Fang + Fang Visual DVD (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Some, including Fang Jue, Shang Dewen, and Lin Mu had no action taken against them. (references)

Beijing intellectual Fang Jue published and disseminated an article advocating elections, freedom of press, and faster economic reforms. (references)

Economic History

Equatorial Guinea

The Nguema family is part of the Esangui subclan of the Fang. (references)

Gabon

Languages: French (official), Fang, Myene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi. (references)

Gabon

Ethnic groups: Fang (largest), Myene, Bapounou, Eschira, Bandjabi, Bateke/ Obamba. (references)

Human Rights

China

Fang Jue suffers from leg and back problems; Xu Wenli has suffered from hepatitis. (references)

China

However, many others, including Chadrel Rinpoche, Fan Zhongliang, Han Chunsheng, Li Bifeng, Jigme Sangpo, Ngawang Sangdrol, Qin Yongmin, Shen Liangqing, Zha Jianguo, Wang Youcai, Xu Guoxing, Xu Wenli, Zhang Lin, Zhang Shanguang, Zhao Changqing, and Fang Jue remained imprisoned or under other forms of detention during the year. (references)

Minorities

Equatorial Guinea

The two Spanish colonies were united 9 years before independence, after which many Fang migrated to Bioko, where Malabo, the capital, is located. (references)

Political Economy

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea nominally is a multiparty constitutional republic; however, in practice power is exercised by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema and the small Mongomo subclan of the majority Fang tribe, which has ruled since the country's independence in 1968. President Obiang, who has ruled since seizing power in a military coup d'etat in 1979, was elected to a 7-year term in February 1996 in elections that were marred by extensive fraud and intimidation. (references)

China

At year's end several thousand political prisoners--including Bishop An Shuxin, Cai Guihua, Han Chunsheng, Li Bifeng, Liu Jingsheng, Qin Yongmin, Shen Liangqing, Zha Jianguo, Wang Youcai, Xu Guoxing, Fang Jue, Xu Wenli, Zhang Lin, Zhang Shanguang, Zhao Changqing, Abbot Chadrel Rinpoche, Jigme Sangpo, and Ngawang Sangdrol (see Tibet addendum)--remained imprisoned or under other forms of detention for the peaceful expression of their political, social, or religious views. (references)

Political Rights

Equatorial Guinea

Leadership positions within the Government in general were restricted to the President's Mongomo clan of the Fang ethnic group and its closest supporters. (references)

Women

Equatorial Guinea

Polygyny, which is widespread among the Fang, contributes to women's secondary status, as does limited educational opportunities. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

There is no discrimination against women in formal inheritance and family laws; however, in the Fang, Ndowe, and Bisio cultures, primogeniture is practiced, and because women become members of their husband's family upon marriage, they usually are not accorded inheritance rights. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "Fang": In a fang ♦ poison fang ♦ To fang a pump ♦ To lose the fang. Additional references.

Beginning with "Fang": fang-jawed, fang-like, fang-toothed.

Ending with "Fang": poison-fang, Ri-fang.

Albanian

Rrënjë E Dhëmbit, Dhëmb Helmues, Dhëmb (cog, Dent, peg, prong, serration, tine, tooth), Çatall. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخلب (claw, talon, unguis), ‏ناب (canine, cuspid, represent, sub, substitute, tooth, tusk), ‏جذر السن, ‏شوكة (backbone, barb, goad, pricket, prickle, spine, spur, thorn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Корен, Зъбец (Dent), Зъб. (various references)

Chinese 

犬齿. (various references)

Czech

Tesák. (various references)

Finnish

torahammas (tusk), myrkkyhammas. (various references)

French

Patte, Crochet, Croc De Chien, Croc. (various references)

German

Fang (capture, catch, fishing, haul, hunting, pounce, prey, scoop, talon, trapping). (various references)

Greek 

Νύχι Ζώου, �"όντι Ζώου, �"όντι Σκύλου. (various references)

Hebrew 

ן ְרס, ן ֻלב. (various references)

Hungarian

Méregfog (sting), Agyar (tusk). (various references)

Indonesian

taring (caninetooth, eye tooth, tusk). (various references)

Italian

Zanna (tusk), Dente (cog, cogging, dens, dent, finger, peg, prong, saw tooth, spike tooth, sprocket, stift, tack, tine, tooth, toothing, wire nail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牙 (tusk), 歯� � (root of a tooth), 歯の� � (root of a tooth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きば (horse-riding, lumberyard, tusk), し�"�" (bluish purple, just now, personal grudge, poetic sentiment, root of a tooth), はのね (root of a tooth). (various references)

Korean 

독아. (various references)

Manx

croag (claw, talon, talon of bird), birrag (canine tooth, Dutch rush, eye tooth, shave grass, skewer, spike). (various references)

Pig Latin

angfay

Portuguese

Fanfarronada (gasconade, hokum, hot air, leg pull, Panada, rodomontade, roistering, swagger), Presa (acquisition, ageing, booty, chase, clutch, cure, curing, gain, hold, nipper, prey, prey fish, quarry, ravin, setting up, swag, talon, tusk), Dente (cogging, dens, dent, grab, ivory, jag, jagg, single tooth, tappet, tine, tined chain, tooth, toothing), Colmilho. (various references)

Romanian

Rãdãcinã De Dinte, Pune În Funcţiune, Ghearã (claw, grapnel, jaw, pounce, spur, talon, ungula), Dinte Veninos (poison-fang), Dinte (claw, cog, Dent, jag, prong, spur, tooth, tusk), Colţ (aiguille, angle, cliff, corner, nest, nook, quoin, spot, stump, tooth, tusk), Cârlig (clamp, clasp, crook, crotchet, grapnel, grapple, hanger, harpoon, hook, peg, staple), Amorsa (bait, kindle, prime). (various references)

Russian 

ядовитый Зуб, Клык. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zubac (cog, jag, spoke, sprocket, tine, tooth), otrovan zub, kljova (tusk). (various references)

Spanish

Colmillo (canine, dog-tooth, eyetooth, tusk). (various references)

Swedish

Huggtand (dogtooth, tusk). (various references)

Thai

เขี้ยวสัตว์. (various references)

Turkish

Zehirli Diş, Uzun Sivri Diş, Pençe (claw, cleat, clutch, clutches, paw, pounce, talon, tap), Kök (base, etymon, grass roots, ground form, origin, radical, radical word, radix, rhizo-, root, stem), Dış Kökü, Azıdiş. (various references)

Ukranian 

ікло (canine, cuspid, dog-tooth, tusk), Отруйний Зуб, Корінь Зуба. (various references)

Welsh

ysgithr (tusk). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Fang": fanga, fangas, fanged, fangless, fanglike, fangs. (additional references)

Words ending with "Fang": defang, firefang. (additional references)

Words containing "Fang": defanged, defanging, defangs, firefanged, firefanging, firefangs, newfangled, newfangledness, newfanglednesses, oldfangled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fang" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aang, afan, afg, Afn, ang, fagr, fahn, famg, famn, fana, fanga, fange, fango, fangu, fangy, Fani, fann, fano, fanp, fant, fanx, fanz, fapn, farg, faug, faung, fawg, fayn, fazn, fcan, Fehg, feng, Fengu, fenig, fenv, Fepg, fing, fingy, flang, fnar, fng, fong, frang, ftan, fuag, fung, nang. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fag, fan, gan, nag.

-2 letters: ag, an, fa, na.

+1 letter: fagin, fanga, fangs, ganef, ganof.

+2 letters: afghan, defang, facing, fading, fagins, faking, faming, fanega, fangas, fanged, faring, fating, faxing, faying, fazing, flagon, flange, fungal, ganefs, ganofs.

+3 letters: afghani, afghans, baffing, barfing, chafing, daffing, defangs, engraft, fabling, facings, fadging, fadings, fagging, failing, fairing, falling, fanegas, fanning, farcing, farding, farming, farting, fashing, fasting, fatling, fatting, fawning, fearing, feasing, feazing, fenagle, finagle, flagman, flagmen, flagons, flaking, flaming, flanged, flanger, flanges, flaring, flawing, flaying, foaling, foaming, framing, fraying, frogman, fungals, gaffing, gainful, hafting, ingraft, leafing, loafing, magnify, rafting, waffing, wafting, waifing, yaffing.

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