Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also eyetooth, 1570s, so called for its position immediately under or next to the eye. Compare German Augenzahn. Related: Eye-teeth.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of eyetooth English)
Usage examples of "eye-tooth".
That portion of the superior maxillary bone which lies between the sockets of the eye-teeth protruded, with the sockets, to a remarkable degree, and instead of being curved appeared to be quite straight.
She could even feel the eye-teeth - her dogteeth - curving up through pink-sheathing gums, cutting the flesh!
That portion of the superior maxillary bone which lies between the sockets of the eye-teeth protruded, with the sockets, to a remarkable degree, and instead of being curved appeared to be quite straight.
There is not one of us would not sooner lose an eye-tooth than miss stays with a King’.
There is not one of us would not sooner lose an eye-tooth than miss stays with a King's officer looking on.
Cracked finger-nail polish, third finger, left hand, and a devastating smile enhanced -- if, that is to say, that's possible -- by a slightly crooked left upper eye-tooth.
And with the old crone watching and knowing everything - laughing silently through a gap-toothed mouth whose eye-teeth at least were still sharp and white - so Francesco found the artery he sought and used his fingers to pierce and sip at the soft centre of Julietta's sex where the marks, if he left any, would never be found, and the blood, if any continued to flow, would have its own explanation.