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sour tooths

sour tooths is the plural of sour tooth.

Meaning of sour tooth

Noun

sour tooth (plural sour tooths)

  1. (idiomatic, singular, uncommon) A liking for foods that are sour.
    • Robin and Jay Brown weren't the kind of kids to be caught with their hands in the cookie jar — they each had a sour (sometimes a half-sour) tooth, and pilfered pickles instead of desserts.1997 April 14, “Deep in a Pickle on the Upper West Side”, in New York, volume 30, number 13, page 26
  2. (countable, idiomatic, rare) Someone with a liking for sour foods.
    • Some "sour-tooths" prefer a sweet, non-acid fruit to an acid non-sweet one, while others do not.1944, Journal of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture

Questions about sour tooths

What is sour tooths the plural of?
Sour tooths is the plural of sour tooth.

Words near sour tooths in the dictionary

  1. sour pusses
  2. sour shchi
  3. sour stomach
  4. sour stomachs
  5. sour tooth
  6. sour tooths
  7. sour worm
  8. sour worms
  9. sour-dough
  10. sour-doughs
  11. sour-faced

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