Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toothing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English

Syllables: tooth-ing
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Teething (growing of teeth).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order to be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The suppose use of Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs to arrange random sexual encounters (a hoax intended to highlight journalists' gullibility and poor fact-checking if they reported it as real).

Countable; Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of tooth

Example Sentences

"Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners."

Etymology

From tooth + -ing.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tooth

Usage

Inflected Forms

toothings (plural)

Phrases

toothing plane

Questions

What does toothing mean?: The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
Where does toothing come from?: From tooth + -ing.

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