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单词 butter tooth
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butter toothn.

Brit. /ˈbʌtə tuːθ/, U.S. /ˈbədər ˌtuθ/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: butter n.1, tooth n.
Etymology: Apparently < butter n.1 + tooth n., although the original motivation for the name is unclear. Compare Dutch botertand front tooth, (in later use) either of the two upper front teeth, especially when large and wide (1599). The direction of any influence is unclear.The name perhaps arose from a supposed leading role for these teeth in tasting food. Perhaps compare Dutch lekkertand tooth that relishes good food, person who relishes good food, gourmand (16th cent.), and compare also sweet tooth n. at sweet adj. and adv. Compounds 1a.
Now chiefly U.S.
Originally: an incisor (front) tooth, esp. when large or prominent (now historical and rare). In later use also (in plural): teeth that are yellowish or uncared-for.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > projecting
tushc725
tuska900
tusclec1000
butter tootha1566
gag-tooth1585
gang-tooth1603
gubber-tush1621
gobber tooth1628
buck-tooth1753
tombstone1809
rabbit tooth1863
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fiv Father you haue good Butter teeth, full seene.
1598 Meane in Spending in T. Tyro Roring Megge sig. G2 Hence it is that the dunce hides his butter-teeth in bacon, while the approoued scholler pickes marrow out of a Spade-bone.
1606 Wily Beguilde 35 Giue me but such an other word, and Ile be thy tooth-drawer een of thy butter tooth, thou toothlesse trot thou.
1686 T. Jevon Devil of a Wife i. i. 4 She turns the wrong end of her Fan, strikes me on the Mouth so hard, that she beat out 2 of my Butter Teeth.
1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote III. iv. 41 That I may stumble and fall, and so break my Jaws, and ding out my Butter-teeth.
1783 R. Wooffendale Pract. Observ. Human Teeth p. xi The two teeth that present themselves in the front of the upper jaw, are known to many by the name of butter teeth.
1850 Common School Jrnl. 15 May 151 In due time, appeared the two butter teeth,..to the great joy of the parents, and to the great misery of the infant.
1880 Shelbyville (Indiana) Democrat 18 Dec. They [sc. the girls of Rushville] are nothing if not horsy... Besides they all have ‘butter teeth’.
1908 ΔΕΣΜὈΣ (Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity) May 142 It was all right to cap a butter tooth with gold rather than allow the patient to leave the office and fall into the hands of unscrupulous operators.
2018 ‏@tasldn 8 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) How dare you get a silver cap on your tooth when you have yellow butter teeth, what kind of disrespect 🤮.

Derivatives

ˈbutter-toothed adj.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [adjective] > projecting
gag-toothed1578
gobber-toothed1655
butter-toothed1688
gubber-tushed1688
rabbit-toothed1800
buck-toothed1863
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 427/1 Butter Toothed is to have broad and great teeth before.
1895 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Aug. 266 I'll make ye hop, blast yer ole red-eyed, fork-tailed, butter-toothed, sinner-roastin' hide!
1985 J. Abbott Substitute Bridegroom 60 Doesn't have to be a beauty.., but I don't want some butter-toothed, hook-nosed harpy either.
2015 J. Kornegay Soil viii. 61 I remember one old butter-toothed junkie, took a mess of drugs and beat up his own mama.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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