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Examples of eyetooth in a Sentence
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The tooth of choice for the procedure: an eyetooth, or canine.
—Megan Talkington, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2010
The real Bootsy, unlike the person pretending to be him, has a star on his eyetooth.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2022
The regiment earned renown for leading thousands of men in the July 18, 1863, storming of Fort Wagner, an eyetooth in the jaw of defenses around Charleston Harbor.
—Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
Audra’s prodigious knowledge of people’s names, faces and bewildering, often pointless personal details — that someone recently broke an eyetooth on a bagel, for example — is an animating force in the book.
—Lydia Kiesling, New York Times, 7 July 2017
But what sort of capitalist swine wouldn’t give his eyeteeth for one?
—John Brownlee, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2006
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Word History
First Known Use
1530, in the meaning defined above
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“Eyetooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyetooth. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
eyetooth
noun
eye·tooth
-ˈtüth
: a canine tooth of the upper jaw
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