Tooth Definition
Appetite or taste for something specified: now only in sweet tooth.
- To be actively involved in; get a firm grasp of.
- To express a readiness to fight; threaten defiantly.
- Lacking nothing; completely:
armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth.
- elderly; old
- with all one's strength or resources
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Tooth
- get
- show
- to the teeth
- long in the tooth
- tooth and nail
Origin of Tooth
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From Middle English tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth"), from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth"). Cognate with Scots tuth, tuith (“tooth"), North Frisian toth, tos (“tooth"), Dutch tand (“tooth"), German Zahn (“tooth"), Danish and Swedish tand (“tooth"), Icelandic tönn (“tooth"), Welsh dant (“tooth"), Latin dÄ“ns (“tooth"), Lithuanian dantìs (“tooth"), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odous, odṓn, “tooth"), Armenian Õ¡Õ¿Õ¡Õ´ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát, “tooth"). Related to tusk.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English tōth dent- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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