eyetooth
nounEtymology From eye + tooth, so called because of their position directly below the eyes.
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A canine tooth of the upper jaw in humans.
- the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
- She called us by all our names, and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eyeteeth.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- cut one's eyeteeth, give one's eye-teeth