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salty tooth en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

By analogy with sweet tooth.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, singular, uncommon, uncountable) A liking for foods that are salty.
    • If you're like me and you can't choose between your salty tooth and your sweet tooth, this one's for you. 2011 October 11, Paula Deen and Melissa Clark, Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 318:
    • [See title] 2018 October 24, Mark Binelli, “Salty Tooth”, in The New York Times:
    • So what's behind that insatiable sweet or salty tooth? A lot of it is genetic. 2015 October 19, Macaela MacKenzie, “Why Some People Have a Sweet Tooth and Others Crave Salty Foods”, in Women's Health:

Coordinates

spicy tooth · sweet tooth · sour tooth