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hound's tooth
1noun
- a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
hound's-tooth
2[ houndz-tooth ]
adjective
- woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks:
a hound's-tooth jacket.
Word History and Origins
Origin of hound's tooth1
Origin of hound's tooth2
Example Sentences
To earn it the investigators must appear every day to be clean as a hound’s tooth.
While waiting on approval to become a nonprofit organization, Parsons met Kat Carter, who is a certified dog trainer and owner of Hound’s Tooth Academy for Dogs in Lexington.
President deeply disturbed at newspaper report of your golf score, insists that anyone connected with his administration be as clean as a hound's tooth.
And since that time the game has been as clean as a hound’s tooth.
He was a cattle magnate of the modern sort; a big, viking-looking man, with a Yale degree, and with a record as clean as a hound's tooth.
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