teeth

Meanings

noun

pluralplural of tooth
Synonyms: chompers, Hampstead Heath, pearly whites, teefies
slanguncountablevulgarUnpleasant oral sex
She gives straight teeth.

nounteeth pl (plural only)

informalpluralplural onlyThe ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
The international community's sanctions against the regime had some teeth to them this time around.
Synonyms: enforceability

verbteeth (third-person singular simple present teeths, present participle teething, simple past and past participle teethed)

present singular third person teeths · participle present teething · participle past teethed · past teethed

Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
Thus, a mother should not think that there is something wrong just because her baby teeths, crawls, walks, or talks earlier or later than her neighbor's baby.
1943, Herman Niels Bundesen, Our Babies, page 81

nounplural of tooth

nounThe ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.

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nounthe kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

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From Middle English teth, plural of tothe, from Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ, from earlier *tœ̄þ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþiz, nominative plural of *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntes, nominative plural of *h₃dónts.