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snaggletooth

[ snag-uhl-tooth ]

noun

plural snaggleteeth.
  1. a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.


snaggletooth

/ ˈæɡəˌٳːθ /

noun

  1. a tooth that is broken or projecting
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԲˌٴǴdzٳ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Բ·-ٴǴdzٳ [snag, -, uh, l-tootht, -too, th, d], adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of snaggletooth1

1815–25; apparently snag + -le + tooth
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Just as she’s reaching for an amusingly, metaphorically ripe peach, her idyll is cut short by a gang of snaggletooth, hygiene-challenged bikers.

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These include teeth from snaggletooth, lemon, mako, silky, sand tiger and great white sharks.

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Beyond the small lake in front of him, a broad grass valley gave way to an escarpment of spruce and pine that climbed until it ran out of oxygen, leaving exposed the tops of a snowcapped, snaggletooth row of 14,000-foot peaks.

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New clients often arrive at Hurley’s studio listing the things they want to obscure with a pose: moles, a snaggletooth, a scar, a large nose, a double chin.

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She always covered her mouth when she laughed because of her snaggletooth.

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