eyetooth
1
8.2
- noun
- /ˈaɪˌtuθ/
- Archaic
:
canino
- She said she noticed that his eyetooth looked a bit swollen.
Examples
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Finishing the song, he aimed his high voice over his eyetooth as if targeting the bird above the tent, and like an arrow, his voice felled it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Each night, mercury would flow from his eyetooth and roll into smooth balls in his sheets, and each morning he would collect them in his mercury chamber.
Fiction book (2000) -
The best I can tell, counting west from the eyetooth on the left, it's either number two or four, somewhere in that vicinity.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ellis gave me a big smile, revealing a bit of green stuff stuck on an eyetooth.
Fiction book (2002) -
The gold lower-left eyetooth, the long fingernails with dirt under them.
Fiction book (1995) -
He told Mary Jane Panucci that the filling in his eyetooth was a shortwave radio and he used to get messages from Admiral Byrd.
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After another week of his dating, she felt as if she was going out of her mind, but she didn't dare ask him if Sir Devil's computer had made the power disk stop manufacturing mercury and sending it through the fireman's eyetooth.
Fiction book (2000) -
There was a long pause, and Junior stood sucking on an eyetooth and studying deeply on something, and then he said, "What you are about to learn is there ain't no balm in Gilead."
Fiction book (1997) -
After the accident, the dentist examined his damaged eyetooth and assured him it could be repaired.
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She proudly showed her daughter how to properly brush her eyetooth to maintain good dental hygiene.
Synonyms
9
3.8
A pointed tooth between the front and back teeth used for tearing food
2
3.3
A pointed tooth next to the front teeth that tears food
1
8.3
A pointed tooth between the front teeth and the back teeth used for tearing food
1
6.7
A pointed tooth next to the front teeth in each jaw
A long pointed tooth on each side of the mouth used for tearing food
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eyetooth is made of the simple parts eye and tooth, because this sharp tooth sits right under the eye. It is the same tooth called 'canine' — think of a dog's long fang to remember its shape and use.