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ˈsnaggle-tooth
[Cf. next and snag-tooth.]
An irregular or projecting tooth. Also, one with snaggle-teeth.
1820M. Wilmot Let. 12 Jan. (1935) 51 Catherine has actually lost one of her teeth!.. The poor Cat will be a rare frightful snaggle tooth. 1821― Let. 17 Mar. 99 Instead of being hideous in the snaggle tooth age..she is..improved. 1825Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng. 71 Snaggle-tooth, a tooth growing irregularly. 1859Slang Dict. 96 Snaggle teeth, uneven, and unpleasant looking dental operators. 1897S. Watson Life's Look-out 67 Every building had its own lurch inwards or outwards, like a mouthful of snaggle teeth. 1906Dialect Notes III. 157 You'll be a snaggle-tooth before you're twenty, if you don't quit eating so much candy. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 227/2 Snaggle-tooth, woman of lower order..who, lifting her upper lip when scolding, shows an irregular row of teeth. |