teeth
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of teeth
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (form-of, plural)plural of tooth
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noun
- (form-of, plural)plural of tooth
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(slang, uncountable, vulgar)Unpleasant oral sex
“She gives straight teeth.”
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(informal, plural, plural-only)The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
“The international community's sanctions against the regime had some teeth to them this time around.”
verb
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Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
“Thus, a mother should not think that there is something wrong just because her baby teeths, crawls, walks, or talks earlier or later than her neighbor's baby.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English teth, plural of tothe, from Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ, from earlier *tœ̄þ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþiz, nominative plural of *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntes, nominative plural of *h₃dónts.
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