gate-toothed
adjEtymology From Middle English gat-tothed.
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Having teeth set wide apart; having a gap or gaps between the teeth.
- I was a wonder bred among the crew / Of quiet, gate-toothed, crooked-nosed psychopaths,1919, Edgar Lee Masters, “They’d Never Know Me Now”, in Starved Rock, page 148:
- The printing machine insists on justifying the lines and produces gate-toothed copy of little elegance.1990, Anthony Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, pages 381-382:
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- With a gate-toothed smile, she dug her fat fingers into the pot of smelly stuff.2015, Juliet Waldron, The Master Passion: Book 1: Love and Liberty, page 147:
- Related terms
- gap-toothed