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teethies

teethies noun: teeth.

Noun

teethies pl (plural only)

  1. (childish, plural, plural-only) Teeth.
    • Lil Kitty comes up and gricks wet nose and teethies against Gerard’s outheld forefinger, ‘Whattayawant, Ploo pli?—[…]1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, Farrar, Straus and Company, page 11
    • […] he starts drilling into Georgie’s soft tooth, […] Georgie has to pay the surgery forty-odd pound for the pleasure of having her teethies hurt.2009, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 75

Examples of teethies in a sentence

  • Now as Mom says, ‘Time to brush our teethies!’2010, Amy Campbell, The Fish in My Drain: Ava’s Adventures, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN:
  • A tail and long whiskers and teethies that bite!2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
  • Something was hidden up there, something, I was willing to bet, that was undead, with big sharp teethies.2021, Seana Kelly, The Wicche Glass Tavern (Sam Quinn; 3), NYLA Publishing, →ISBN:

Origin of teethies

From teeth + -ies.

Questions about teethies

What does teethies mean?
Teethies means teeth.
How do you use teethies in a sentence?
Now as Mom says, ‘Time to brush our teethies!’
What part of speech is teethies?
Teethies is a noun.

Words near teethies in the dictionary

  1. teethed
  2. teether
  3. teethers
  4. teethes
  5. teethful
  6. teethies
  7. teethily
  8. teething
  9. teething issues
  10. teething problem
  11. teething problems

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