Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Plural of tooth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plural of tooth.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. pl. of tooth.
- v. To breed, or grow, teeth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
Etymologies
- Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She dances through room after room until she finds the group scattered across a banquet, they look at her with huge eyes, all inky-black pupils, and smile wide, wide, wide, wide, wide smiles and if she shakes her head from left to right real fast she can see a fast white line of teeth blending from one head into and another teeth, teeth, teeth her cousin is clenching her teeth.”
“The probability that their teeth were taken out by force, is increased by the fact of their being _front teeth_ in almost every case, and from the fact that the loss of no _other_ is mentioned in the advertisements.”
“ssoooooo……..teeth huh……wow…..wouldn't have thought of that….sure teeth, but 'lots of teeth'…..now thats whats missing, makes so much sense now.”
Alex Proyas on Vampire Mythology for Dracula: Year Zero « FirstShowing.net
“Observaciones sobre el clima de Lima y sus influencias en los seres organizados en especial el hombre."] [Footnote 16: The women of Lima clean their teeth several times a day with the root called _Raiz de dientes_ (literally _root for the teeth_), of which they keep a piece constantly in their pocket.] [Footnote 17: It is related that, during the war of independence, when”
“I have also heard that the wear on the teeth is a way to get a rough veiw of the age of the deer”
“I find I have so little time with the two kids that brushing my teeth is a luxury.”
“I hear that spinach in the teeth is a new fad, kind of like those giant plugs kids are putting in their earlobes now.”
“The idea of shimming slivers of stainless steel between my teeth is a little disturbing, but I can't deny that the design and execution are quite cool.”
“We are told three to four weeks for the inspectors to go back into Iraq, and the debate now is how do you get what they call teeth into that resolution, meaning clear language.”
“These oppressors are not content with eating all that is to be eaten belonging to the peasants; after they have crammed themselves and their numerous retinue, they have the impudence to exact what they call teeth-money, a contribution for the use of their teeth, worn with doing them the honour of devouring their meat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teeth’.
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• Wordies talk about themselves
Sometimes users are also persons.
llogos, peter stickles, old age, 39, insomnia, frown of approval, chuck norris, ovular, gay, fencing, rabbits, seven empty cups ... and 137 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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White Stuff
White things
Feel free too addtalc, refrigerator, snow, flour, sugar, paper, bedlinen, pillows, white, chalk, envelope, vanilla and 26 more...
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Conversations
Words with interesting comments. This doesn't mean I'm adding schadenfreude.
sprite, footnote, ringxiety, firkin, jesus's, guys, möbius strip, mentions, waxed paper, za, hobby horse, ombrology and 54 more...
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Recently Licked
Blame bilby. And dontcry.
cupcake, plate, fufluns, your finger befor..., postage stamp, lips, paul mcclosky, elbow, ice cream bowl, side of coffee cup, wooden spoon, teeth and 23 more...
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This list is like butter
peanut butter, almond butter, butter of antimony, mineral butter, butter of arsenic, soy nut butter, apple butter, cocoa butter, butter bean, butter clam, butterfly, cacao butter and 72 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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easy words
that read unfresh in many instances, that get sentimental, that can be too manipulative, that frequent the work of novices.
lips, suddenly, brush, mouth, teeth, heart, cool, breathe, wet, fists
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Flanges &c
Amusingly-named mechanical and electrical parts to be found in a particular warehouse in Newfoundland
nut, relief valve, cotter, shaft, bushing (inner bo..., sleeve, bushing (link), thrust washer, slip yoke, bushing (swing post), half pump coupling, main teledyne spool and 344 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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My Dogs' Words
treat, potty, outside, mommie, mommielina, mommierenee, kisses, yes, no, love, sit, down and 186 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for teeth.
yarb Never had the pleasure of ham and jam - ham today, jam tomorrow, that's my motto. Nov 30, 2010
ruzuzu I just spent some time with my grandfather--he was describing his cousin's easy life as being like "ham and jam." Has anyone else ever heard of that phrase (or that hork-worthy combination)? Nov 30, 2010
madmouth hard to gather material for, mostly. and it's shameful to have a second-best list. anyway, teeth lives on in the conversations lists; the definition will not go unnoticed. Jul 18, 2009
yarb It's a good effort from weirdnet but I don't think it qualifies as the best. High standards, you know. Why not start a list called "the second-best of weirdnet", and add it to that? Jul 17, 2009
madmouth put it in Best of Weirdnet, already! Jul 17, 2009
mollusque It's been years since I dunked, but if I did dunk, 'twould be Graham crackers in sweetened condensed milk. Aug 2, 2008
reesetee That's right--the best two-thirds. Aug 1, 2008
dontcry That's 2/3rd's of a s'more, rt! Aug 1, 2008
reesetee Or even chocolate-covered ones. Aug 1, 2008
tay! chocolate graham crackers? Aug 1, 2008
reesetee Graham crackers are excellent. Especially chocolate ones. Aug 1, 2008
trivet I like crackers. What can I say? Aug 1, 2008
chained_bear Oh, I've seeeeeen sugar butty. Don't you worry about that. My mind is still reeling.
Trivet! Graham crackers?! *sigh* Aug 1, 2008
bilby "...to leave off the butter when making a sandwich would require an active intervention" is simply exquisite. And being brought up in the Commonwealth, I understand. Although being a vegan I've had to get a bit funky with butter alternatives.
Aug 1, 2008
reesetee I...I...
Oh, there's just too much to say. Plus I'm very hungry, for some reason. Aug 1, 2008
sionnach see also sugar butty. Aug 1, 2008
trivet The only thing I will dunk is a graham cracker into some Sunny D. *ducks head in shame* Aug 1, 2008
dontcry *steps down from tea & toast with jam box* Aug 1, 2008
yarb *cracking up reading dontcry's third sentence* Aug 1, 2008
dontcry Hey, I ate the damn Marmite after I watched two people practically gag on it....so there. Aug 1, 2008
dontcry Yes, yes, yes! The bear gets it! I didn't mention the oil slick on top due to the hork factor -- but I loves it!
I agree on the tea preparation (I like Earl Grey).
We part ways on the subject of jelly (also, never margarine). I'd like to suggest that since I've done it without jelly (not as good...) you should pony up and try it with jelly. It won't kill you.
To the rest of you -- TRY IT! Why, I bet all of you are eating (and doing) things today that you once thought were gross. Am I wrong? No, I'm not. Do it. Aug 1, 2008
chained_bear Wet bread is indeed what I hate. I'm with you there. EXCEPT when dunking toast with BUTTER ONLY into hot, sweetened tea with milk.
I'm very particular. Never any jam or jelly on dunkable toast. That makes it undunkable. Never hot tea WITHOUT both milk and sugar. That is undunkinable.
Black tea. Hot. Milk. Sugar (at least two heaping teaspoons).
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Bread (of whatever kind, as long as it's sliced), toasted on both sides. Buttered or margarined.
equals
pure dunkability.
The butter/margarine imparts a delicious sheen of grease to the tea. (This tendency, incidentally, is why I wouldn't dunk jammed or jellied toast into it.)
DC has made a very important point: lightning-fast dunking speed. Once the crispy toasted corner of bread enters the hot sweetened tea, you can't hesitate for a yoctosecond or the thing will disintegrate and cause a heaping pile of soggy crumbs at the bottom.
And now that I've thoroughly grossed out even myself, I hereby resolve that one day, I'll eat a piece of bread--or at least toast--with both butter and jam on it. In yarb's honor. Aug 1, 2008
trivet I'm decidedly antidunk. Soggy food is an abomination. Aug 1, 2008
dontcry I know, it sounds gross -- but the trick is in the lightening fast dunk -- just enough to impart a bit of tea flavor and warmth to the very tip...
Aug 1, 2008
yarb I'll have to try that dontcry, although I've never been much of a dunker. Have to make sure the tea is unsweetened, since it's going to be suffused with jam by the end. Jul 31, 2008
skipvia I was with you right up until the tea-dipping, dc.
*hork* Jul 31, 2008
dontcry You really need the butter on toast with jelly/jam. Then you take a corner and dip it ever so quickly into your hot tea and bite it off before it turns to mush! Yum!
I think the peanutbutter could hold its own on bread without butter as it already is kind of oily. But, a bit of butter couldn't hurt. Jul 31, 2008
trivet Interesting - cold or room temperature butter/bread/strange British filling combinations freak me out, but raspberry jam on hot buttered toast is a symphony of deliciousness. Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear Trivet: If I'm making toast and intend to put either jam or peanut butter on it, I won't put butter on it first.
Nice try though. ;)
Yarb: thanks for the explanation. Would you please now add to the Wordie archives, for the benefit of our posterity and Wordieternity, the delightful—nay, ambrosiac—phrase fluffy starchtastic bun of love? Thank you in advance for your kind attention to this most serious matter. Jul 31, 2008
skipvia Long live the Empire, yarb! Jul 31, 2008
yarb No pique inferred, c_b. I'm always happy to talk about butties (singular butty). It is indeed a general synonym for sandwich, more prevalent in some parts of the UK than others, but generally understood.
I was brought up with butter on every kind of sandwich, including PB&J (Canadian mother). I have met a few people who find this odd. I think butter is tied very closely to bread in the cultural imagination of the British Isles, perhaps because for ages bread and butter was a staple for much of the population? So to leave off the butter when making a sandwich would require an active intervention.
Certainly butter is essential to a chip butty, since its principal glory consists in the hot chips melting the butter into the bread, creating a fluffy, starchtastic bun of love. Jul 31, 2008
trivet C_b, do you like butter and jam on toast? Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear I think maybe it's butter and jam... *queasy* ... Yes, that's it.
The idea of putting butter on any kind of sandwich still strikes me as weird after lo, these many years--probably just because I didn't grow up with it. Butter and ham (and mayonnaise, or not), butter and chips, butter and pickles, butter and jam... Is there a larger cultural significance to putting butter on *every* kind of sandwich? Is it just habit? Is the presence of butter on all sandwiches one reason why many Brits and Aussies think peanut butter and jelly (jam) is gross? Since there wouldn't be any actual butter on it?
Yarb, for the record, since you sounded piqued, I am asking in a spirit of genuine curiosity. I've only ever seen/heard of chip butties, and didn't know there was another kind until you mentioned jam butties. Is "butty" ("buttie" in singular?) a general synonym for sandwich? Or is it only a certain kind of sandwich? Jul 31, 2008
yarb Bread, butter and jam is a jam sandwich! Could you please explain to me what's hork-inducing about that? Sure, you might not have a sweet tooth - I don't - in which case you'll prefer chip butties. But your continued incredulity at the concept suggests a deeper abhorrence. Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear Ohhh... I think I'm gonna be sick... Jul 31, 2008
yarb Yes; how could you not? Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear Aaahh... all is revealed. But you still have butter on it, with the jam? And chips? Respectively? Actual butter? Really? Jul 31, 2008
yarb Certainly: the difference between a chip butty and a jam butty is that the former has jam in it, but no chips, while the lattter, per contra, contains chips, but not one whit of jam. Jul 31, 2008
chained_bear Wait... yarb... butties? Can you explain how jam butties differ from, say, chip butties?
*waits* Jul 31, 2008
bilby Okay dontcry, I'm beginning to see your toothiness. Jul 30, 2008
dontcry It's not bragging if it's true. Jul 29, 2008
reesetee P.S. Why do porch owners always brag about the size of their teeth? Jul 29, 2008
reesetee Yes, all of them. They are all in my fine (excuse me, bestiary) bestiary. I also have an octopus named Fly, a kangaroo named Lope, and a lion named Baldy. It's a real hoot at feeding time.
Oh, and speaking of hoot--I almost forgot my owl. Name is Chirp. Jul 29, 2008
chained_bear Or a guinea pig named Eye...? Jul 29, 2008
Prolagus Or a shark named Lung... Jul 29, 2008
dontcry I've also been described as toothsome, for your information! Jul 29, 2008
Prolagus reesetee, do you also have a snake named Hair? Jul 29, 2008
dontcry I do SO have toothiness. Why, I have such toothiness that some of my teeth have teeth. That's right. In places, here and there, I'm double-toothed! So there. Jul 29, 2008
bestiary is that because you've used him to replace one of yours? Jul 29, 2008
reesetee I have a bird named Tooth. Does that count? Jul 29, 2008
bilby *fearless*
No, you don't have toothiness either. Jul 27, 2008
dontcry yarb & bilby: why don't you come a litle closer and I'll give you a demonstration of my toothiness...? Jul 26, 2008
sionnach Nobody is listing "a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used". Why don't you?
Nobody is listing "a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing". Why don't you?
I used to think I knew what teeth are. Reading those Weirdnet definitions, now I'm not so sure.
I'll have the bisque, please.
Jul 26, 2008
yarb Yes, as a matter of fact I do. All the jam accumulated in other people's toes is to be found surrounding my teeth. My teeth are jammier than The Jam, jamming in a traffic jam, with jam butties jammed in their jammies. Jul 26, 2008
bilby Do you have teethjam, yarb? Jul 26, 2008
yarb Yes, I think dontcry is fibbing about her toothiness. Jul 26, 2008
bilby I don't see any evidence you have teeth, dontcry. Perhaps you only have tooth. Jul 26, 2008
dontcry Teeth here as well.
Soup's on though, just in case... Jul 25, 2008
mialuthien I do have teeth, Bilby! (In a glass on my bedside cupboard – not!!). Jul 25, 2008
yarb I have teeth. Jul 25, 2008
plethora And ice cream, too, dc. Jul 25, 2008
bilby Only 14 of 8,000+ Wordies have teeth? I hope there's soup on the Porch, dontcry. Jul 25, 2008