sweet-toothed
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4.5
Having a strong liking for sweet foods like cake or candy
- adjective
- /ˈswiːtˌtuːθt/
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goloso
- She always chooses desserts because she is sweet-toothed.
Examples
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Many sweet-toothed children prefer candies over fruits.
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Ideally, any dilemma sweet-toothed consumers face at the checkout counter of their local bakery or candy store need not extend beyond anxiety over an upcoming dentist's appointment.
Academic text (2008) -
As a sweet-toothed person, he can't resist a slice of cake.
How Fond
Surface Forms
sweet-toothed positive
Morphology
sweet-toothed = sweet tooth (transparent) = sweet + tooth + ed
Formed from the noun 'sweet tooth' plus the adjective-forming suffix '-ed', so the meaning 'having a liking for sweets' follows directly.
Etymology
Sweet-toothed comes from putting together sweet and tooth, like the common phrase 'have a sweet tooth' for someone who loves sugar. So, sweet-toothed means 'having a strong liking for sweet foods'.