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eyetooth

noun

Etymology

From eye + tooth, so called because of their position directly below the eyes.

  1. inherited from *h₃dónts✻
  2. inherited from *tanþs✻
  3. inherited from *tanþ✻
  4. inherited from tōþ
  5. inherited from tothe
  6. compounded as eyetooth — “eye + tooth”

Definitions

  1. A canine tooth of the upper jaw in humans.

    • the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
    • She called us by all our names, and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eyeteeth.

The neighborhood

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