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Definition of Sweet tooth
1. Noun. A strong appetite for sweet food.
Definition of Sweet tooth
1. Noun. (idiomatic only in singular) a liking for foods that are sweet; a weakness for sweets ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic countable) Someone with a liking for sweet foods. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Tooth
Literary usage of Sweet tooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shelley at Oxford by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1904)
"Like all persons of simple tastes, he retained his sweet tooth. He would greedily
eat cakes, gingerbread and sugar; honey, preserved or stewed fruit with ..."
2. Cuban Cane Sugar-a Sketch of the Industry: From Soil to Sack, Together with by Robert Wiles (1916)
"... I. Our sweet tooth Growing Sweeter— And Why OUR grandfathers, in the early '50s,
got along well enough with a family sugar consumption of two pounds a ..."
3. Parents and Their Problems: Child Welfare in Home, School, Church and State by Mary Harmon Weeks, National Congress of Mothers (1914)
"His "sweet-tooth" is as much a necessary part of the child's make-up as are his
hair and ... The sweet tooth necessary The bigness of the penny question ..."
4. The Home Maker by Jane Cunningham Croly (1889)
"N these days the eye teeth appear simultaneously with the sweet tooth ; but in
... How the sweet tooth has grown ! Now each member of every family in the ..."
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