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单词 butter-tooth
释义 ˈbutter-tooth Obs.
[f. butter n.1 + tooth: cf. Du. boter-tand ‘an incisor tooth, esp. when broad and large’ (Bomhoff). The reason for the name is uncertain.]
Originally perh. a front tooth; later app. = buck-tooth.
1571R. Edwards Damon & P. in Dodsl. IV. 79 Father, you have good butter-teeth full seen.1622Massinger Old Law iii. ii, I'd had..my two butter-teeth Thrust down my throat.1736Bailey, Butter-Teeth, great, broad Foreteeth.1782A. Monro Anat. 121 Whence come butter or buck teeth?
Hence ˈbutter-toothed ppl. a.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 427/1 Butter Toothed is to have broad and great teeth before.
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