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 Literature
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 Project Gutenberg
In person and onscreen, Dreyfuss, short, gat-toothed and, until recently, distinctly chubby, generates enough electricity to light up a small town�Cleveland or Chicago, say.
From Time Magazine Archive
I got mad," he reports, "probably the maddest I had ever been in my whole life�at homesickness, at blond majorettes, at gat-toothed Dallas girls, at twangy accents, at my own helpless condition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gat-toothed: gap-toothed; goat-toothed; or cat- or separate toothed.
From Project Gutenberg
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