teethies
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]teethies pl (plural only)
- (childish) Teeth.
- 1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, Farrar, Straus and Company, page 11:
- Lil Kitty comes up and gricks wet nose and teethies against Gerard’s outheld forefinger, ‘Whattayawant, Ploo pli?—[…]
- 2009, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 75:
- […] 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.
- 2010, Amy Campbell, The Fish in My Drain: Ava’s Adventures, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN:
- Now as Mom says, ‘Time to brush our teethies!’
- 2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
- Run fer yer lives! It’s a hideous sight! A tail and long whiskers and teethies that bite!
- 2021, Seana Kelly, The Wicche Glass Tavern (Sam Quinn; 3), NYLA Publishing, →ISBN:
- Something was hidden up there, something, I was willing to bet, that was undead, with big sharp teethies.