Meanings
- figurativelyliteraryuncommonPredatory and voracious.
to the guidance of his friend Rownaa, son and heir of the red-toothed monarch already described.
1839, “Coulter's Cruise”, in Blackwood's Magazine, Fishing Excerpts, volume 3, page 3302 more examples
The reason why, with hunger unstaunched, you have left your quarry behind; Red-toothed, red-mawed, foregone your meal! Sir Wolf, we'll know your mind!”
1896, Emily Henrietta Hickey, Poems, page 17Apart from man, who has his anguish of the imagination, his torturing apprehensions and, thereto, his faculty for prolonging lives of pain and sickness, the ideal which Nature, unreasoning and red-toothed, has of life is this - a vivid, happy experience wrought to highest pitch, then the sudden death, the end coming in mid-course.
1922, Horace Gordon Hutchinson, The Fortnightly Club, page 116
Origin
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