eyetooth

See also: eye-tooth and eye tooth

English

Etymology

From eye +‎ tooth, so called because of their position directly below the eyes.

Noun

eyetooth (plural eyeteeth)

1. A canine tooth of the upper jaw in humans.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     She called us by all our names, and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eyeteeth.

Alternative forms

• eye tooth
• eye-tooth

Derived terms

• cut one's eyeteeth
• give one's eye-teeth

Translations

canine tooth of the upper jaw — see also canine tooth

• Finnish: raateluhammas
• German: Augenzahn (de) m
• Ido: okul-dento
• Latvian: acuzobs m
• Māori: niho kata, niho rei
• Serbo-Croatian: očnjak (sh) m
• Yiddish: אויגנצאָן m (oygntson)