Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clean as a hound's tooth

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: clean as a hound's -tooth
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very clean.

adj

Example Sentences

"Rogers left the Department of State in September, 1973, before the Watergate scandal had implicated Nixon and some of his principal White House aides. He couldn't have picked a better time to return to private life and all his friends were happy for him. Bill Rogers simply cleaned his desk and moved back to his old law firm, Rogers and Wells. He came through all this untarnished, as clean as a hound's tooth."

Synonyms

clean as a new penny clean as a whistle clean clean as a bean clean as a hound's tooth clean as a new pin immaculate pristine spick-and-span spotless squeaky clean stainless

Questions

What does clean as a hound's tooth mean?: Very clean.

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