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snaggle-toothed

snaggle-toothed is the alternative form of snaggletoothed.

Meaning of snaggletoothed

Adjective

snaggletoothed (comparative more snaggletoothed, superlative most snaggletoothed)

  1. Having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise damaged or disorderly teeth.
    • One part of me wanted that voyage never to end.
      But end it did. Kentish Queen slid into Dover's snaggletoothed twin sister over the mucky water, Ostend, the Lady of Dubious Virtue.2004, David Mitchell, “Letters From Zedelghem”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 46

Forms of snaggle-toothed

comparativemore snaggle-toothed
superlativemost snaggle-toothed

Questions about snaggle-toothed

What is snaggle-toothed the alternative form of?
Snaggle-toothed is the alternative form of snaggletoothed.

Words near snaggle-toothed in the dictionary

  1. snagging lists
  2. snagging some z's
  3. snaggings
  4. snaggle
  5. snaggle-tooth
  6. snaggle-toothed
  7. snaggle-tooths
  8. snaggled
  9. snaggles
  10. snaggleteeth
  11. snaggletooth

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