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give an eye-tooth

give an eye-tooth is the alternative form of give one's eye-teeth.

Meaning of give one's eye-teeth

Verb

give one's eye-teeth (third-person singular simple present gives one's eye-teeth, present participle giving one's eye-teeth, simple past gave one's eye-teeth, past participle given one's eye-teeth)

  1. To sacrifice something valuable.
    • Your real sea-dog will give his eye-teeth for a glass of grog; it is a fact, that many a tooth has been drawn in exchange for rum.1836, James B. Dow, The Way-Mark, Chapter VI, The end of the Drunkard, page 133

Forms of give an eye-tooth

third-person singular presentgives an eye-tooth
present participlegiving an eye-tooth
pastgave an eye-tooth
past participlegiven an eye-tooth

Questions about give an eye-tooth

What is give an eye-tooth the alternative form of?
Give an eye-tooth is the alternative form of give one's eye-teeth.

Words near give an eye-tooth in the dictionary

  1. give a toss
  2. give about
  3. give against
  4. give ale
  5. give ales
  6. give an eye-tooth
  7. give an inch
  8. give and take
  9. give as good as one gets
  10. give away
  11. give away the farm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: give an eye-tooth (page history and authors); give one's eye-teeth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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