toothy

English

Etymology

From tooth +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.θi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

toothy (comparative toothier, superlative toothiest)

1. Having prominent teeth.
   • 1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:

     Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139:

     Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.

   • 2024 September 9, Michael Dominski, “Everything that happened on Day 9 of the US Open with Navarro, Fritz and Tiafoe advancing to the semifinal”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Frances Tiafoe is coming for tennis once more. The tongue-wagging and the fist-pumping and the glare; the toothiest you-know-what-eating grin in the game; the high-energy vibes that can bring any tennis crowd into his corner.

Derived terms

• toothily
• toothiness

Translations

having prominent teeth

• Belarusian: зуба́ты (zubáty)
• Bulgarian: с издадени зъби (s izdadeni zǎbi)
• Catalan: dentut (ca) m
• Czech: zubatý
• Finnish: isohampainen
• Greek: δοντάς m (dontás), δόντιας m (dóntias)
• Polish: zębaty (pl)
• Russian: зуба́стый (ru) (zubástyj)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zubaty

• Turkish: dişlek (tr)
• Ukrainian: зуба́тий (zubátyj), зуба́стий (zubástyj)