gat-toothed

[ gat-tootht, -toothd ]

adjective

1. gap-toothed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gat-toothed¹

1350–1400; Middle English gat tothed

Example Sentences

A slow, gat-toothed grin spread over Dove’s face.

From Literature

Smiling her gat-toothed smile and riding easily upon her ambler, she would enter the gates and alight in the court, and what a month of excitement would pass before she rode away again.

From Project Gutenberg

In person and onscreen, Dreyfuss, short, gat-toothed and, until recently, distinctly chubby, generates enough electricity to light up a small town�Cleveland or Chicago, say.

From Time Magazine Archive

I got mad," he reports, "probably the maddest I had ever been in my whole life�at homesickness, at blond majorettes, at gat-toothed Dallas girls, at twangy accents, at my own helpless condition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gat-toothed: gap-toothed; goat-toothed; or cat- or separate toothed.

From Project Gutenberg