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snaggle

snaggle

1 9.1
A tooth that is broken or sticks out and looks uneven
  • noun
  • /ˈsnæɡəl/
translation icon : diente astillado
  • Look at that snaggle-toothed... big, greasy, fucking nasty pig.
  • snaggle teeth
  • snaggle-toothed smile
  • snaggle-toothed grin

Examples

  • Lot of people think dope fiends have got horns on their heads and snaggle teeth, running around raping young broads.

  • I'll be walking in church like holo Deacon, get your snaggle tooth and inside my face.

  • So we have a hemipristis, which is a snaggle tooth, shark tooth.

  • The young man is bald, wrinkled, large-jawed, and snaggle-toothed.

    Academic text (1996)
  • I already did the $6000 ortho thing, and he really wasn't all that snaggle-toothed!

    Blog text (18)
  • I remember seeing you and thinking, "sure, she's got mousy brown hair and a snaggle tooth and an oily forehead.

  • You discover that if the women in your family haven't been eating a lot of mussels for at least the last four generations, you are pretty much guaranteed a $6000 orthodontia bill for your snaggle-tooth kid.

    Blog text (18)
  • The child smiled widely, showing her snaggle teeth that stuck out in an endearing way.

  • His snaggle tooth made his smile uniquely charming during family photos.

  • With a noticeable snaggle tooth on the left side, her grin stood out in the crowd.

Synonyms

snaggletooth
vssnaggle
2 6.7

A tooth that sticks out or is crooked

emphasizes a broken or protruding tooth that sticks out noticeably

How Crooked

snaggle
1 9.1
buck-toothed
2 6.8
crooked
58 2.5
normal
  • Specialized
32 7.0

Surface Forms

snaggle singular
snaggles plural

Morphology

snaggle = snag (semi-transparent) = snag + le

The sense 'protruding or broken tooth' is plausibly derived as a 'snag-like' projection from 'snag' + '-le', but the specific application to a tooth is an extension that may not be immediately obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Snaggle comes from the same root snag ('something that sticks out') with the small ending -le, so it means a little part that juts out. That's why a snaggle can mean an uneven or sticking-out tooth.