tooth
- noun
- /tuːθ/
- The dentist examined my tooth and suggested I needed a filling.
- brush teeth
- brushing teeth
- tooth decay
It has said you have to pull this tooth very, very slowly.
- It has said you have to pull this tooth very, very slowly.
- So we're standing there and watching him using his teeth, chewing the patch off.
- People going to get their teeth lasered white.
- I feel like like this tooth is like, oi, it hurts.
- This is this is some next level tooth brushing going on here.
Examples
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I don't have a gap in my teeth.
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You've got, like, spinach stuck in your teeth.
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But if you knock out their tooth, you got to let them go free.
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What big teeth you have!
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Oh, then I brush one tooth at a time and then I leave.
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Have I got something in my teeth?
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We're gonna remove all your teeth.
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May I have my tooth back from Leah?
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-I lost a tooth, Lou.
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No, we didn't lose the tooth, but only barely.
Idioms
To punish someone in the same way they hurt another person
Compounds
- Baby Talk
An imaginary person who takes a child's lost baby tooth and leaves money under the pillow
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Damage to a tooth's hard surface caused by bacteria that often makes a hole
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A child's baby tooth that falls out and is replaced by an adult tooth
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A tooth that cannot come through the gum because other teeth block it
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A large sharp tooth in meat-eating mammals for cutting meat from bone
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A nerve disease that runs in families and makes the muscles of the hands and lower legs weak and thin
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A small plant that grows in woods and makes pretty spring flowers and is grown in gardens
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A tree from eastern North America with large leaves that have rough edges and light bark
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A small surgical tool that has tiny teeth at the tips and holds delicate body tissue
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A sea animal that has a long thin shell open at both ends and a foot for digging in sand
A North American spring flower with white petals and a yellow center
How Healthy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tooth goes back to an old German word toth that meant 'tooth', so the word still names the hard white part in the mouth used for biting and chewing.