Noun: gobber tooth
| Singular | gobber tooth |
| Plural | gobber teeth |
Sample Sentences
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Every old woman with a wrinkled face..a gobber tooth..is pronounced for a witch. [1646, Gaule, J., Select Cases of Conscience, page 5:]
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Sanders' wife..is much more attractive than the legendary witches of hag-jowl and gobber-tooth. [1970 April 25, San Mateo Times, California:]
Nouns inflected like gobber tooth
primary tooth,
scissor tooth,
jawtooth,
milk tooth,
milk-tooth,
egg tooth,
bucktooth,
mill tooth,
deciduous tooth,
rabbit tooth,
cheek tooth,
axle tooth,
colt's tooth,
purple tooth,
canine tooth,
eye tooth,
pseudotooth,
back tooth,
temporary tooth,
gobber tooth, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Formed from gobber (of uncertain origin; possibly derived from gob or gab; compare gubber-tush) + tooth. The earliest documented usage can be traced back to 1628, but the term was not recorded between the 17th and late 20th centuries.