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Definition of Gap-toothed
1. Adjective. Having widely spaced teeth. "His gap-toothed grin"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gap-toothed
Literary usage of Gap-toothed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1891)
"'Famine— the gap-toothed elf;' Golding's Ovid, b. 8; leaf 105. It occurs again,
CT 6185. Gat-toothed has also been explained as goat-toothed, lascivious, ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"GAPE, vn I gap- Primary sense, »n GAPER, nJ > opening ; and used in rt- gap-toothed,
adj. \ ference to a variety of GAT-TOOTHED. J subjects, both literally ..."
3. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1891)
"'Famine— the gap-toothed elf;' Golding's Ovid, b. 8; leaf 105. It occurs again,
CT 6185. Gat-toothed has also been explained as goat-toothed, lascivious, ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"GAPE, vn I gap- Primary sense, »n GAPER, nJ > opening ; and used in rt- gap-toothed,
adj. \ ference to a variety of GAT-TOOTHED. J subjects, both literally ..."
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