Meanings
- not comparableExhibiting a gap between the teeth, especially between the two upper central incisors.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, another gap-toothed woman, appears in a clip from her address to the Salvation Army.
1997, Sharon R. Sherman, Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and Culture, →ISBN, page 118 - not comparableExhibiting a gap where a tooth is missing, as of a child who has lost a baby tooth, or an adult who has lost a permanent tooth.
Other slices of Canadian life included scenes of Niagara Falls, log-rolling, gap-toothed hockey players, and beer halls.
2012, Nicole Neatby, Peter Hodgins, Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History, →ISBN1 more example
The gap-toothed grins of many 7- and 8-year-olds reflect the rapid loss of baby teeth and eruption of permanent teeth during the early school years, although children typically do not lose all of their primary teeth until they are about 12 years old.
2011, David F. Bjorklund, Carlos Hernández Blasi, Child & Adolescent Development: An Integrated Approach, →ISBN, pages 141–42
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving widely spaced teeth
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishgap tothed
- Englishgap-toothed
From Middle English gap tothed, gapt tothed (also gaptothe), alteration of earlier gat-tothed (literally “gate-toothed”), equivalent to gap + toothed.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish jolla on rako etuhampaiden välissä
- jolla on rako etuhampaiden välissähaving a gap between the front teeth
French qui a les dents du bonheur
- qui a les dents du bonheurhaving a gap between the front teeth
Irish grabach, mantach
- grabachhaving a gap between the front teeth
- mantachhaving a gap between the front teeth
- scagfhiaclachhaving a gap between the front teeth
- séanasachhaving a gap between the front teeth
- mantachmissing a tooth
- scagfhiaclachmissing a tooth
Polish szczerbaty
- szczerbatyhaving a gap between the front teeth
Russian щерба́тый
- щерба́тый (ščerbátyj)having a gap between the front teeth
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