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wangtooth en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English wangtooth, from Old English wangtōþ (“molar, grinder”). By surface analysis, wang (“cheek”) + tooth.

Meanings

1. (dialectal) A molar.
   • All at once, an epiphany of sorts, his wangtooth roving through the binding caught upon a manuscript fragment which to all appearances is the missing conclusion of the Hous. 1976, Bartlett Jere Whiting, Respectfully and Finally Submitted:
   • Then he asked leave a third time, and the youth, knowing that, if the Khalif assented yet once more, it would be the signal of his death, laughed till his wang-teeth appeared; […] 2006, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:

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