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sweet tooth


sweet tooth

noun

: a liking for sweet foods

Full Definition of SWEET TOOTH

:  a craving or fondness for sweet food
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First Known Use of SWEET TOOTH

14th century

Rhymes with SWEET TOOTH

bucktooth, cheek tooth, dogtooth, Duluth, egg tooth, eyetooth, forsooth, half-truth, home truth, houndstooth, in truth, Kossuth, milk tooth, sawtooth, selcouth, tollbooth, uncouth, untruth, vermouth

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