sweet tooth
A liking for foods that are sweet; a weakness for sweets.
He eats a healthy diet most of the time, but has a sweet tooth when it comes to candy.
tooth
UK /tuːθ/ US /tuθ/
noun 5verb 3name 1
Definitions
noun
1
A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
tooth decay
2
A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
3
A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
4
Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
5
A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
verb
1
To provide or furnish with teeth.
His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
2
To indent; to jag.
to tooth a saw
3
To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
name
1
A surname.
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