toothly

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toothly

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From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.

adjective toothlier · more toothly · toothliest · most toothly

  1. Of or pertaining to teeth; dental. For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid "toothly," as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one.
  2. Toothy. 'I see you're admiring our decor,' the man said with a toothly smile, and Paresh noticed that his canines bit wolfishly into his thick mulberry lip.

adverb toothlier · more toothly · toothliest · most toothly

  1. In a manner regarding teeth; dentally. Toothly speaking then — it pays to stay savage. There is evidence too, that civilizations long before ours felt the stress of dental cares.

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@misc{toothly_2026,
  title = {toothly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/toothly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}