Meaning of fangful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
2. An amount sufficient to fill a fanged creature's mouth.

Examples

“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.”

“Not long after that, something fast and cool plunged a fangful of venom into his wrist, then slipped over the side of the boat with a gentle plop before he could get a good look at it.”

“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.”

“And down the dark and twisting clouds came a foggy stream of running wolves with luminous eyes, Quicksilver at their forefront, snapping at the head of the Wendigo, biting it away in airy fangfuls.”

“Looking shiftily about, her eight eyes glittering like pewter sequins, she grabbed a fangful of crumbs.”

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