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snaggletoothed

snaggletoothed adjective: having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise damaged or disorderly teeth.

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
    • “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of...2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, quoting Annie Bourneuf, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025

Forms of snaggletoothed

comparativemore snaggletoothed
superlativemost snaggletoothed
alternative formsnaggle-toothed

Origin of snaggletoothed

From snaggle + toothed or snaggletooth + -ed.

Questions about snaggletoothed

What does snaggletoothed mean?
Snaggletoothed means having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise damaged or disorderly teeth.
What part of speech is snaggletoothed?
Snaggletoothed is an adjective.

Words near snaggletoothed in the dictionary

  1. snaggle-tooths
  2. snaggled
  3. snaggles
  4. snaggleteeth
  5. snaggletooth
  6. snaggletoothed
  7. snaggletooths
  8. snaggling
  9. snaggly
  10. snaggy
  11. snagless

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