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Definition of Buck-toothed
1. Adjective. Having protruding upper front teeth.
Definition of Buck-toothed
1. Adjective. Having buckteeth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buck-toothed
Literary usage of Buck-toothed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"In connexion with get-tot/ted, we may also explain the more modern expression,
buck-toothed. “ Buck “ was employed in old English to express a “ he-goat. ..."
2. The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer: (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche) by Alexander Mackenzie, Kenneth Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor (1882)
"... and all four were the contemporaries of the last of the Seaforths. We believe
Sir Hector Mackenzie of Gairloch was the buck-toothed ..."
3. The Celtic Magazine (1879)
"Sir Hector Mackenzie, Bart, of Gairloch, was buck-toothed, and is to this day
spoken of among the Gair- loch tenantry as " An-tighearna ..."
4. Outer Isles by Ada Goodrich-Freer (1903)
"... Grant and Raasay—of whom one shall be buck-toothed, another hare-lipped, ...
lairds who were to be buck-toothed, etc., I am uncertain which was which. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"A few honest remonstrances have indeed been ventured amid cries of oh, oh !
and vociferations of buck-toothed laughter ..."
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