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gap-toothed

gap-toothed

3 6.9
Having a space between the front teeth
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡæpˌtuːθt/
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  • A Dugbo girl approached Reith, jangling the silver ornaments at her waist, smiling a gap-toothed grin.
  • gap-toothed grin
  • gap-toothed smile
  • gap-toothed girl

Examples

  • "It's not your fault you're so gap-toothed."

    Mean Girls (2004)

  • A round old Indian man with a gray topknot on his head and a big, gap-toothed grin lets me into the building.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Only later, comfortable shooting his gap-toothed smile, did Riley figure it out.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Gets a big, gap-toothed grin in return.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • "Mrs. Long smiled at me with her gap-toothed grin."

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Cordelia grinned, and one of them, a little girl, cringed in a blissful, gap-toothed smile.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • " Craig's bristly, bearded face was split by a big, gap-toothed grin.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Dees frowned, then smiled, a great, gap-toothed grin that wreathed his broad face in weathered lines.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The gap-toothed child smiled widely at the camera, showing off her missing teeth.

  • His gap-toothed smile made him look even more charming at the party.

How Wide

gap-toothed
3 6.9
close-set
1 5.1

Surface Forms

gap-toothed positive

Morphology

gap-toothed = gap + tooth (transparent) = gap + tooth + ed

Formed by the clear combination of 'gap' + 'tooth' with adjectival '-ed', meaning 'having a gap between the teeth', which is directly inferable from the components.

Etymology

Gap-toothed joins gap ('a space') and tooth ('a tooth') to make a simple picture of a clear space in the front teeth. So, gap-toothed describes someone whose smile or face shows that space.