gate-toothed en · ADJ
Etymology
From Middle English gat-tothed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having teeth set wide apart; having a gap or gaps between the teeth.
The printing machine insists on justifying the lines and produces gate-toothed copy of little elegance.
1990, Anthony Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, pages 381-382:With a gate-toothed smile, she dug her fat fingers into the pot of smelly stuff.
2015, Juliet Waldron, The Master Passion: Book 1: Love and Liberty, page 147:I was a wonder bred among the crew / Of quiet, gate-toothed, crooked-nosed psychopaths,
1919, Edgar Lee Masters, “They’d Never Know Me Now”, in Starved Rock, page 148: