teeth
nounnounverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈtiːθ//
- United States//ˈtiθ//
- //ˈtiːf//
Unpleasant oral sex
noun
- 1
slangUnpleasant oral sex
She gives straight teeth.
- 2
Also a form of toothplural of tooth
Etymology
From Middle English teth, plural of tothe, from Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ, from earlier *tœ̄þ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþiz, nominative plural of *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntes, nominative plural of *h₃dónts.
noun
- 1
informalThe ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
The international community's sanctions against the regime had some teeth to them this time around.
verb
- 1
Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
Thus, a mother should not think that there is something wrong just because her baby teeths, crawls, walks, or talks earlier or later than her neighbor's baby.
Forms
- past tense
- teethed
- past participle
- teethed
- present participle
- teething
- third person singular
- teeths