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salty tooth

salty tooth noun: a liking for foods that are salty.

Noun

salty tooth (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic, singular, uncommon) 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
    • 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

salty tooth meaning in Bengali

salty tooth in Bengali

নোনতা খাবারের প্রতি পছন্দ

Origin of salty tooth

By analogy with sweet tooth.

Questions about salty tooth

What does salty tooth mean?
Salty tooth means a liking for foods that are salty.
What is salty tooth in Bengali?
Salty tooth in Bengali is নোনতা খাবারের প্রতি পছন্দ. See Salty tooth meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is salty tooth?
Salty tooth is a noun.

Words near salty tooth in the dictionary

  1. salty dog
  2. salty dogs
  3. salty licorice
  4. salty liquorice
  5. salty plum
  6. salty tooth
  7. saltyback
  8. saltyish
  9. Saltz
  10. Saltzes
  11. Saltzman

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