teethe
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of teethe
1375–1425; late Middle English tethen, derivative of teth teeth
Example Sentences
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It began when her family moved from Pakistan to the United States when Chaudry was just an infant; her mother filled her bottles with half-and-half and allowed her to teethe on sticks of butter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
This is a question that political philosophers teethe over constantly: “Are the citizens of a state liable for what it does in their name?”
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022
After all, Jones says, gums don’t bleed when kids teethe.
From Slate • May 4, 2015
Gandhi, whose mother's policies had done much to whelp and teethe the Tigers, earned their enmity in 1987 when he co-authored a peace plan for their offshore island republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
They wanted to know how the little thing was getting along, whether its milk agreed with it, whether it had begun to teethe, whether it would speak German or some foreign tongue, and so on.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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