loose-toothed

adjective

Exhibiting missing, misshapen, or misaligned teeth.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. derogatoryinformaluncommonExhibiting missing, misshapen, or misaligned teeth.

    I have seen several black-mouthed, loose-toothed fellows, hankering after pickles.

    1906, Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea; Letters and Diary of the Late Charles W. Wills, Private and Sergeant 8th Illinois Infantry; Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant 7th Illinois Cavalry; Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel, 103rd Illinois Infantry, page 274
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    But the Herr counselor knew us no longer, and troubled himself no further about the fatal history of the carriage and the dislocated hip of the loose-toothed aunt.

    1857, John Sullivan Dwight (contributor), Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature, volume 9, number 16, page 122

    There are all the buildings, the traffic and the people speaking in complete sentences to contend with, not to mention the loose-toothed children.

    2010, Corinne Grant, Lessons in Letting Go, Confessions of a Hoarder, page 22

Origin

From loose + toothed.

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