gat-toothed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gat-toothed
1350–1400; Middle English gat tothed
Example Sentences
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A slow, gat-toothed grin spread over Dove’s face.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Smiling her gat-toothed smile and riding easily upon her ambler, she would enter the gates and alight in the court, and what a month of excitement would pass before she rode away again.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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