FANGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• phang, phange (obsolete)

発音

• (General American, without æ-raising) IPA: /ˈfæ̝ŋ/
  • (æ-raising) IPA: /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfæ̞ŋ/
• 韻: -æŋ
• ハイフネーション: fang

語源 1

From clipping of fangtooth, from 中期英語 *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from 古期英語 fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below.

名詞

fang (plural fangs)

1. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh. [16th cent.]
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123:

     The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.

2. (obsolete) Synonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates. [17th cent.]
3. A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom. [18th cent.]
4. A pointed extension of the chelicera in spiders, used for injecting venom. [19th cent.]
5. (colloquial) Synonym of tooth, particularly in humans. [19th cent.]
6. (mathematics) Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.

派生語

動詞

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
   • 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton:

     chariots fang'd with scythes

語源 2

From 中期英語 fangen, fongen, from 古期英語 fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).

Cognate with North Frisian fo, fu, füünj (“to get, obtain, receive”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen, fahen (“to catch”), Low German fangen (“to catch”), Luxembourgish fänken (“to catch”), Faroese fá, fáa (“to get; to catch”), Icelandic fá (“to get, receive”), Danish, Norwegian, Swedish få (“to get, receive”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).

動詞

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize.

   Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip, clutch, lay hold of; see also Thesaurus:grasp

   • 1605, John Webster, Northward Ho, act 1, scene 2:

     Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

   • c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3:

     Destruction fang mankind.

2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.

   Synonyms: land, lay hands on, score; see also Thesaurus:receive, Thesaurus:take

3. (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality.

   Synonyms: greet, welcome

4. (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.

   Synonyms: cop, get; see also Thesaurus:receive

5. (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 fang, possibly from 古期英語 fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).

Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).

名詞

fang (plural fangs)

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. [13th cent.]
2. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods. [13th cent.]
3. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
   1. (obsolete) Synonym of trap or noose. [16th cent.]
   2. Synonym of root, the part of a tooth embedded in the gums. [17th cent.]
   3. (botany, obsolete) Synonym of root, a major projection of a plant's root system. [17th cent.]
      • 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [April.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 15:

        Now take out your Indian Tuberoſes, parting the Off-ſets (but with care, leſt you break their fangs) then pot them in natural (not forc'd) Earth; [...] the protuberant fangs of the Yuca are to be treated like the Tuberoſes.

   4. (obsolete) Synonym of claw or talon. [18th cent.]
   5. Synonym of spike or prong, any sharp projection. [18th cent.]
   6. Synonym of tang, the projection of a piece of metal intended to be driven into a shaft for holding. [18th cent.]
4. (nautical, archaic) Synonym of vang, a line extended from the end of a gaff to control its position. [16th cent.]
5. (nautical) The valve of a pump-box. [19th cent.]
6. (mining, Derbyshire dialect) A channel cut or pipe set for the purpose of carrying fresh air to working miners.
7. (mining, rare, in the plural) Catches on which a coalmining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.

   Synonym: cage-shuts

同意語

• (stolen goods): See Thesaurus:booty

派生語

動詞

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

語源 4

The Macquarie Dictionary and the Australian National Dictionary Centre derive it from the name of Juan Fangio, Argentinian racing driver.

動詞

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (Australia, slang, transitive, intransitive) To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.
   • 2008, Mardi McConnochie, “The Mission”, in Dangerous Games:

     Soph was probably out drag-racing with Draz, or fanging down some brightly lit street somewhere hanging out Draz's brother's sunroof and waving at passers-by and screaming.

   • 2014 August 1, Michael West, “Victoria's $1 billion per kilometre road - who wouldn't rail against that?”, in The Age‎:

     The question of whether rail might be a better long-term option than road is passed over with the speed of a merchant banker fanging up the toll road to Mount Buller for the weekend […]

   • 2017, Karen M. Davis, Fatal Mistake:

     Batman changed gears and fanged the car a little too fast around a corner, almost skidding onto Elizabeth Street at the back of Redfern.

関連する語

参照

Further reading

• “fang, n1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

発音

• IPA: /fɑnɡ/, [fɑŋɡ]

名詞

fang m

1. plunder, booty

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

関連する語

• fōn
• herefong