sweet tooth
noun1
Idiomatic A liking for foods that are sweet; a weakness for sweets.
- He eats a healthy diet most of the time, but has a sweet tooth when it comes to candy.
2
Idiomatic Someone with a liking for sweet foods.
3
An edible fungus of species Hydnum repandum.
4
A preference, especially for a kind of food.
- the python has a sweet tooth for rats and mice and the sweet tooth of this particular snake is on edge for a square meal.1913, Jewett Castello Gilson, Wealth of the World's Waste Places, and Oceania, page 298:
- Prowlers are on the loose in suburban Denver. Description: pointy ears, bushy tails and a sweet tooth for poodle and cat.2007 May 30, Joey Bunch, “Suburban pet peeve: coyotes”, in The Denver Post:
4 more examples
- But my grandmother had, in my father's words, a "sweet tooth” for meat.2010, Tony Ardizzone, The Whale Chaser: A Novel, page 101:
- In the same way I developed a craving for doughnuts, my sweet tooth for God's Word developed by repetition.2013, Kim Newlen, The One Year Sweet and Simple Moments with God Devotional, page 169:
- ".... She had a sweet tooth for booze." "Did she have a sweet tooth for drugs?"2014, John Maley, A Little Murder in Tucson, page 50:
- I have high hopes though, because mother always did have a sweet tooth for rather nice men, you see father was tremendously attractive.2022, Anthony M. Ludovici, Too Old for Dolls: A Novel:
- Derived terms
- sweet-toothed