snaggle-toothn.
An irregular or projecting tooth. Also, one with snaggle-teeth.
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1820 M. 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 M. Wilmot Let. 17 Mar. 99 Instead of being hideous in the snaggle tooth age..she is..improved.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 71 Snaggle-tooth, a tooth growing irregularly.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 96 Snaggle teeth, uneven, and unpleasant looking dental operators.
1897 S. Watson Life's Look-out 67 Every building had its own lurch inwards or outwards, like a mouthful of snaggle teeth.
1906 Dial. Notes 3 157 You'll be a snaggle-tooth before you're twenty, if you don't quit eating so much candy.
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 227/2 Snaggle-tooth, woman of lower order..who, lifting her upper lip when scolding, shows an irregular row of teeth.
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