gnasher

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noun

One who gnashes the teeth.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noungnasher (plural gnashers)

plural gnashers

  1. One who gnashes the teeth.
  2. colloquialA tooth.

    Teeth for the ladies; teeth for the gentlemen — at upwards of two pound ten a gnasher"

    1993, Alethea Helbig with Agnes Perkins, Children's Literature Association, The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, 1985-1989, page 85
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    COUNTRY park ranger Bob Thurston could hardly believe his luck when he casually asked bosses at the gravel quarry next door whether any interesting old

    1999 June 19, “Holy molar's, look at this gnasher!; MAMMOTH TOOTH DISCOVERED”, in Coventry Evening Telegraph

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