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buck-toothed

buck-toothed

2 6.8
Having front upper teeth that stick out
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌkˌtuːt/
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  • We were quiet again, and then she poked me in the arm and said, "Hey, Ray, want to hear about geologic time?" smiling her slightly buck-toothed smile, strands of black hair arcing across her forehead.
  • buck-toothed boy

Examples

  • He is pretending that he's buck-toothed.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • If you were leaning on the lamp and a buck-toothed man with a ukulele arrived would there be anything...?

    Camilla (1994)

  • It just reminds me of the buck-toothed smile of 5-year-old Mackenzie from Toddlers and Tiaras.

    Blog text (26)

  • A putty-faced girl in torn overalls will put dandelions around the lawn jockey, and the buck-toothed boy with the tennis ball will stop throwing because the Lord works in strange and mysterious ways.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The child smiled brightly, showing her buck-toothed grin as she posed for the photo.

  • He had a distinctive buck-toothed appearance that made him easily recognizable among his friends.

  • During the play, the actor portrayed a buck-toothed character that brought laughter to the audience.

Synonyms

toothy
vsbuck-toothed
7 4.1

Having large visible teeth when smiling

means specifically upper front teeth projecting forward instead of general tooth prominence
snaggle-toothed
vsbuck-toothed
1 7.6

Having uneven or broken teeth that stick out

focuses on forward-projecting upper front teeth rather than general unevenness

How Crooked

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

Surface Forms

buck-toothed positive

Morphology

buck-toothed = bucktooth (transparent) = buck + tooth + ed

Formed from the compound 'buck-tooth' with the adjectival suffix '-ed'; the meaning 'having protruding front teeth' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word buck-toothed is made from buck, a name for animals like rabbits with big front teeth, and toothed 'having teeth'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a rabbit's front teeth, so buck-toothed means having upper front teeth that 'stick out'.