spicy tooth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

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noun

A liking for foods that are spicy.

Uncountable

"A week of fact-checking the story proved too much for my spicy tooth; I made immediate plans to visit Chang's latest restaurant"
"I not only have a sweet tooth, but I have a salty tooth, a sour tooth, a spicy tooth, you name the taste and I have the damned tooth for it!"
"I will admit, I have a huge sweet tooth (probably larger than my spicy tooth), but I do have a limit as to how sweet I like my desserts."

By analogy with sweet tooth.

salty tooth sour tooth sweet tooth

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