dogtooth – English noun declension

English noun forms of dogtooth

Noun: dogtooth
Singulardogtooth
Pluraldogtooths; dogteeth

Sample Sentences

  • Dogges teeth, dentes canini. [1552, Richard Huloet, Abcedarium Anglico Latinum..., s.v:]
  • There are other twaine on each side, commonly called Dogge-teeth. [1594, Pierre de la Primaudaye, translated by Thomas Bowes, The French Academie..., volume II, page 105:]
  • When he smiled... one of his dogteeth stuck out. [1991, Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife, page 200:]
  • This arch is the side of a niche from the tomb of Can Signorio della Scala, at Verona; and the value, as well as the distant expression of its dogtooth, may be seen by referring to Prout's beautiful drawing of this tomb in his "Sketches in France and Italy." [1851, John Ruskin, “The Edge and Fillet”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § IV, page 260:]

Nouns inflected like dogtooth

dogtooth, fangtooth,

Etymology

From Middle English dogge tothe, calque of Latin dens caninus (“doglike tooth”). Equivalent to dog + tooth. See: Middle English Nouns 'dogge tothe', Latin Nouns 'dens'.