snaggletooth

[snag-uhl-tooth]

noun

plural

snaggleteeth 

1. a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.

snaggletooth

/ ˈsnæɡəlˌtuːθ /

noun

1. a tooth that is broken or projecting

Other Word Forms

• snaggletoothed adjective
• snaggle-toothed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of snaggletooth¹

1815–25; apparently snag + -le + tooth

Example Sentences

We’re talking about Derpy Tiger, an oversized blue cat with glowing yellow eyes, a snaggletooth grin and a penchant for righting overturned vessels.

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Just as she’s reaching for an amusingly, metaphorically ripe peach, her idyll is cut short by a gang of snaggletooth, hygiene-challenged bikers.

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These include teeth from snaggletooth, lemon, mako, silky, sand tiger and great white sharks.

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Beyond the small lake in front of him, a broad grass valley gave way to an escarpment of spruce and pine that climbed until it ran out of oxygen, leaving exposed the tops of a snowcapped, snaggletooth row of 14,000-foot peaks.

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New clients often arrive at Hurley’s studio listing the things they want to obscure with a pose: moles, a snaggletooth, a scar, a large nose, a double chin.

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