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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toothy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a toothy grin (=one that shows your teeth a lot)
▪ The man gave a large toothy grin.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
grin
▪ He gave her a wide toothy grin, and immediately realized it was exactly the wrong approach.
▪ Her son holding his head beside the big carved pumpkin, mimicking a wide, toothy grin.
▪ The toothy grin of this naturally modest farmer's son was less than villainous at the finish.
▪ Bafflingly for Barry, his hairy chest, toothy grin and even his ale and hearty tum couldn't win her over.
▪ The vessel features Major giving a toothy grin, considerably broader than the one on the Thatcher mug.
smile
▪ Mike Dawson was sitting at a dead computer, strumming the keyboard and offering a toothy smile to an invisible audience.
▪ He is small for his age with large brown eyes, a toothy smile, sloping shoulders and a readiness to please.
▪ Those who remembered him with his barrow recalled a cheerful, toothy smile, an infectious, confidence-inspiring laugh.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bafflingly for Barry, his hairy chest, toothy grin and even his ale and hearty tum couldn't win her over.
▪ He gave her a wide toothy grin, and immediately realized it was exactly the wrong approach.
▪ He is small for his age with large brown eyes, a toothy smile, sloping shoulders and a readiness to please.
▪ He took the cigarette holder out of his wide mouth and beamed at his visitor, his Roosevelt smile, warm and toothy.
▪ Her son holding his head beside the big carved pumpkin, mimicking a wide, toothy grin.
▪ Mike Dawson was sitting at a dead computer, strumming the keyboard and offering a toothy smile to an invisible audience.
▪ The toothy grin of this naturally modest farmer's son was less than villainous at the finish.
▪ Those who remembered him with his barrow recalled a cheerful, toothy smile, an infectious, confidence-inspiring laugh.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toothy

Toothy \Tooth"y\, a. Toothed; with teeth. [R]
--Croxall.

Wiktionary
toothy

a. Having prominent teeth

WordNet
toothy
  1. adj. having or showing prominent teeth; "a toothy smile"

  2. [also: toothiest, toothier]

Usage examples of "toothy".

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duck-billed monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.

The skulls and chitin headcases of a menagerie glared dead ferocity from its flanks: toothy and agape, flat, eyeless, horned, lamprey-mouthed with cilia-teeth, bone-ridged, shockingly human, intricate.

Plesiosaurus, extending its long serpentine neck toward the island, and next to it is an even bigger sea-going dinosaur, the Ichthyosaurus, with its immense toothy mouth agape.

The loupers came to the front of their enclosure at his call, pointed ears up, tongues lolling out of toothy muzzles, tails wagging.

As they moved by him, his own men saluted wildly, great toothy smiles.

He glanced at the gangway petty officer, Engstrand, a tall broad-shouldered first-class signalman, who was leaning against the desk, enjoying the byplay with a toothy grin.

Hand raised ready to smack his exposed botty, she turned upon the camera a toothy smile.

The Toydarian fairly beamed with delight, his reticular snout curling over his toothy mouth and making odd smacking noises.

Aside from unmissable massiveness, the man was toothy and blond and unsmiling.

Sometimes she still saw it in her dreams: the white face, almost as tall as she, with its glowing red eyes, backswept fringed ears, and catfish whiskers around the toothy, pointed jaws.

She picked an armful of flowers, toothy dis and marjoram, bartsia and planellasprinkled them on the current and as they drifted away offered a prayer that the young men might meet with Sphelthon and share his peace.

Alf Brummel sat at the conference table surrounded by his many comrades and smiling that toothy grin.

Miragenian shook his head and smiled a very white and toothy smile, reminding Carole of a gypsy conducting a horse trade.

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.