| 释义 |
gap-toothed, a.|ˈgæpˌtuːθt|
[f. gap n.1 + toothed.]
Having the teeth set wide apart.
In quot. 1700 substituted for Chaucer's gat-tothed.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. viii. 108 b, Where seeking long for Famine she the gaptoothd [1584–7 gagtoothd] elf did spie. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 121 Antoninus Pius was of an high stature, thicke bearde, white, rare and gap-tothed. 1700Dryden Fables Pref., Wks. (Globe) 501 The broad-speaking gap-toothed wife of Bath. 1802Lamb Lett. (1888) I. 193 Those rotten-jawed, gap-toothed, old worn-out chaps of hell. 1842Tennyson Vision of Sin 60 A gray and gap-tooth'd man as lean as death. 1886D. C. Murray 1st Pers. Sing. xviii. 138 Grinning at him with a horrible gap-toothed laugh. |