spicy tooth

noun

A liking for foods that are spicy.

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Meanings

nounspicy tooth (uncountable)
  1. idiomaticsingularuncommonuncountableA liking for foods that are spicy.

    A week of fact-checking the story proved too much for my spicy tooth; I made immediate plans to visit Chang's latest restaurant

    2010 March 25, “Chef Peter Chang Disappears Again”, in The New Yorker
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    I not only have a sweet tooth, but I have a salty tooth, a sour tooth, a spicy tooth, you name the taste and I have the damned tooth for it!

    2020 May 7, Rashmi Trivedi, Women, Everything Will Be Fine, 2 edition, BlueRose Publishers, page 81

    I will admit, I have a huge sweet tooth (probably larger than my spicy tooth), but I do have a limit as to how sweet I like my desserts.

    2021 November 2, Priyanka Naik, The Modern Tiffin: On-the-Go Vegan Dishes with a Global Flair (A Cookbook), S&S/Simon Element, →ISBN, page 54

Origin

By analogy with sweet tooth.

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“spicy tooth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spicy%20tooth. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spicy tooth,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spicy%20tooth.

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