gate-toothed

adjective

Having teeth set wide apart; having a gap or gaps between the teeth.

OriginMiddle English gat-tothed →
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Meanings

adjectivegate-toothed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving teeth set wide apart; having a gap or gaps between the teeth.

    With a gate-toothed smile, she dug her fat fingers into the pot of smelly stuff.

    2015, Juliet Waldron, The Master Passion: Book 1: Love and Liberty, page 147
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    I was a wonder bred among the crew / Of quiet, gate-toothed, crooked-nosed psychopaths,

    1919, Edgar Lee Masters, “They’d Never Know Me Now”, in Starved Rock, page 148

    The printing machine insists on justifying the lines and produces gate-toothed copy of little elegance.

    1990, Anthony Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, pages 381-382

Origin

  1. Middle Englishgat-tothed
  2. Englishgate-toothed

From Middle English gat-tothed.

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