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A large projecting front tooth
Answer for the clue "A large projecting front tooth ", 9 letters:
bucktooth
Word definitions for bucktooth in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large projecting front tooth [also: buckteeth (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bucktooth \Buck"tooth`\, n. Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. --Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from buck (n.1), perhaps on the notion of "kicking up," + tooth . In French, buck teeth are called dents à l'anglaise , literally "English teeth." Old English had twisel toð "with two protruding front teeth." Related: Buck-toothed .
Usage examples of bucktooth.
Then the driver, having completed his mandatory flirtation with the bucktooth waitress, gave the bus horn a sharp blast.
The pawnbroker had also sold him a limited but fairly effective disguise: gray hair, spectacles, mouth wadding, plastic buckteeth which subtly transfigured his lip line.
Then the bucktoothed Irishwoman grinned-the eternal struggle between the two of them-sharing that .
She also suffered from what is commonly referred to as buckteeth, with one crooked eyetooth on the left side.
Mo himself had written that Maria used to be a quiet, homely girl, with buckteeth and a very bad complexion.
Its gigantic ears and exaggerated buckteeth gave it an almost comical, cartoon-ish quality that was offset by one look at those powerful legs.
Ambreza were enormous rodents that somewhat resembled overgrown beavers, complete to the buckteeth and large, paddlelike tail.
It was just the rodentlike head and prominent buckteeth that gave the initial impression.
If you will hark your mind back to that Edwards boy, that bucktoothed one that joined the Army - what was his name?
Where the handle should have been, the pointed visor jutted out, bucktoothed and blank.
This latter line was vegetarian, blessed with buckteeth and jaw muscles that never tired, superbly fitted for chewing gum and leafy plants.
The Ambreza were enormous rodents that somewhat resembled overgrown beavers, complete to the buckteeth and large, paddlelike tail.
See them in something ten years old and they looked ten years old themselves, bucktoothed with inbreeding.
Saul cant help but grin when the mans son, a bucktoothed boy with home-cut bangs, gets dinged out on MANICOTTI.
All the jokes we made up till last year about them being little bucktoothed guys with funny glasses flying planes made out of tinfoil and scrap iron—.