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    • 1.1 Etymology
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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtiːθ/
    • (th-fronting) IPA(key): /ˈtiːf/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtiθ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːθ

Noun

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teeth

  1. plural of tooth Synonyms: chompers, Hampstead Heath, pearly whites, (diminutive) teefies
  2. (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Unpleasant oral sex She gives straight teeth.

Noun

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teeth pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect. Synonym: enforceability The international community's sanctions against the regime had some teeth to them this time around.

Derived terms

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  • arm to the teeth
  • bare one's teeth
  • better than a kick in the teeth
  • bit between one's teeth
  • bone apple teeth
  • bone in her teeth
  • British teeth
  • brush one's teeth
  • by God's teeth
  • by the skin of one's teeth
  • cast in someone's teeth
  • cast something in someone's teeth
  • cut one's teeth
  • devil's teeth
  • dragon's teeth
  • elephant's teeth
  • false teeth
  • fed up to the back teeth
  • fed up to the teeth
  • front teeth
  • get one's teeth into
  • give one's eye-teeth
  • gnash one's teeth
  • God's teeth
  • grit one's teeth
  • hell's teeth
  • in spite of someone's teeth
  • in the teeth of
  • kick in the teeth
  • kiss one's teeth
  • lie through one's teeth
  • make someone's teeth itch
  • my back teeth are floating
  • my teeth are floating
  • no skin off one's teeth
  • one's teeth water
  • pull teeth
  • rare as hen's teeth
  • rarer than hens' teeth
  • rarer than hen's teeth
  • scarce as hen's teeth
  • set one's teeth on edge
  • set someone's teeth on edge
  • show one's teeth
  • sick to the back teeth
  • sink one's teeth in
  • sink one's teeth into
  • skin of the teeth
  • sow dragon's teeth
  • suck one's teeth
  • summer teeth
  • summerteeth
  • teefies
  • teeth arm
  • teeth-baring
  • teeth-less
  • teeth mark
  • teeth-to-tail ratio
  • the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature
  • throw something in someone's teeth
  • Turkey teeth
  • Turkish teeth
  • weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
  • with the skin of one's teeth

Verb

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teeth (third-person singular simple present teeths, present participle teething, simple past and past participle teethed)

  1. Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
    • 1943, Herman Niels Bundesen, Our Babies, page 81: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.

See also

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  • toothless
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