词汇 | fang |
词源 | fang [OE] Fang first meant booty or spoils. It comes from Old Norse fang ‘to capture, grasp’. A sense ‘trap, snare’ is recorded from the mid 16th century; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense ‘large, sharp tooth’ (also mid 16th) reflects the same notion of ‘something that catches and holds’. |
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