loose-toothed en · ADJ
Etymology
From loose + toothed.
Meanings
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(derogatory, informal, uncommon) Exhibiting missing, misshapen, or misaligned teeth.
There are all the buildings, the traffic and the people speaking in complete sentences to contend with, not to mention the loose-toothed children.
2010, Corinne Grant, Lessons in Letting Go, Confessions of a Hoarder, page 22:But the Herr counselor knew us no longer, and troubled himself no further about the fatal history of the carriage and the dislocated hip of the loose-toothed aunt.
1857, John Sullivan Dwight (contributor), Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature, volume 9, number 16, page 122:I have seen several black-mouthed, loose-toothed fellows, hankering after pickles.
1906, Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea; Letters and Diary of the Late Charles W. Wills, Private and Sergeant 8th Illinois Infantry; Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant 7th Illinois Cavalry; Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel, 103rd Illinois Infantry, page 274: