fangful means having sharp or menacing fangs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Etymology
From fang + -ful (“possessing”).
adj
- 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.”
- Cruel or venomous.“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.”
noun
- 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.”
- 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.”