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Definition: Sweet Tooth |
Sweet ToothNoun1. A strong appetite for sweet food. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye. |
Fastidiousness | Verb: be fastidious; Adjective: have a sweet tooth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Daddy's got a sweet tooth tonight! (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden) | |
Lyrics | Sweet tooth tortured by weight loss programs (Ants Marching; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fatal Sweet Tooth (1914) | |
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Health | To help with the occasional sweet tooth that we all have, artificial sweeteners may be used in foods. (references) | |
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Expression using "sweet tooth": have a sweet tooth. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sweet tooth | 441 |
sweet tooth game | 245 |
pogo sweet tooth | 22 |
game pogo sweet tooth | 18 |
mecha monster sweet tooth war | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweet tooth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pëlqim i gjërave të ëmbla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ماسح جوخ, حب الحلويات, الولوع بالحلويات, رجل معسول اللسان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | almindelig pigsvamp (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gele stekelzwam (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Franse kantharel (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Franse kantarel (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Franse cantharel (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Franse cantarel (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaaleaorakas (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pied de mouton, hydne sinué, homme douceâtre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stoppelpilz (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Stachelpilz (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Semmelstoppelpilz (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), Semmelpilz (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לקקן, או"ב ממתקים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | édesszájú (have a sweet tooth, sweet-toothed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | steccherino dorato (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog), goloso di dolci, ghiotto di dolci, gallinaccio spinoso (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eetsway oothtay guloso (gluttonous, gourmand, greedy, lickerish). (various references) сластена. (various references) sladokusac (gourmand, gourmet). (various references) lengua de gato (ladyfinger), goloso (gourmand, greedy), gamuza (chamois, leather, shammy, suede). (various references) blek taggsvamp (hedgehog, tooth fungus, wood hedgehog). (various references) tatlıya düşkünlük, şeker sevme. (various references) sьяjiзil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Dentinum repandum, Hydnum repandum. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-o-o-s-t-t-t-w" | |
-3 letters: hottest, toeshoe, towhees, wettest. | |
-4 letters: soothe, tooths, towhee, tweets. | |
-5 letters: ethos, hoots, howes, ottos, sheet, shoot, shote, shott, sooth, sweet, teeth, teths, these, thews, those, tooth, toots, totes, tweet, weest, weets, whets, whose, whoso, woosh. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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