teethies
nounEtymology From teeth + -ies.
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Childish Teeth.
- Lil Kitty comes up and gricks wet nose and teethies against Gerard’s outheld forefinger, ‘Whattayawant, Ploo pli?—[…]1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, Farrar, Straus and Company, page 11:
- […] he starts drilling into Georgie’s soft tooth, […] Georgie has to pay the surgery forty-odd pound for the pleasure of having her teethies hurt.2009, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 75:
3 more examples
- Now as Mom says, ‘Time to brush our teethies!’2010, Amy Campbell, The Fish in My Drain: Ava’s Adventures, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN:
- Run fer yer lives! It’s a hideous sight! A tail and long whiskers and teethies that bite!2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
- Something was hidden up there, something, I was willing to bet, that was undead, with big sharp teethies.2021, Seana Kelly, The Wicche Glass Tavern (Sam Quinn; 3), NYLA Publishing, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- toothie