Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toothly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tooth-ly
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to teeth; dental.

adj

adv

In a manner regarding teeth; dentally.

Example Sentences

"For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid "toothly," as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one."
"Peter stored his toothly treasures in a beautiful wooden case. Each tooth was secured to its own little compartment with a gray silk ribbon looped around it."
"'I see you're admiring our decor,' the man said with a toothly smile, and Paresh noticed that his canines bit wolfishly into his thick mulberry lip."
"She returned a toothly grin that displayed her deep, pretty dimples."
"Toothly speaking then — it pays to stay savage. There is evidence too, that civilizations long before ours felt the stress of dental cares."

Etymology

From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tooth

Inflected Forms

toothlier (comparative) more toothly (comparative) toothliest (superlative) most toothly (superlative)

Synonyms

teethly

Questions

What does toothly mean?: Of or pertaining to teeth; dental.
Where does toothly come from?: From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.

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