teethies

English

Etymology

From teeth +‎ -ies.

Noun

teethies pl (plural only)

1. (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.

Related terms

• toothie