teethe

American  

[teeth] / tið /

verb (used without object)

teethed, teething

1. to grow teeth; cut one's teeth.

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teethe British  

/ tiːð /

verb

1. (intr) to cut one's baby (deciduous) teeth

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Etymology

Origin of teethe

1375–1425; late Middle English tethen, derivative of teth teeth

Example Sentences

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

It soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you will both continue the practice of taking a cold bath every morning, you will soon regain your former healthy tone, and Susan become stronger and teethe easily.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various