ˈbuck-tooth
[f. buck n.1 + tooth.]
A large projecting tooth. Also attrib.
| [a 1550 Addicioun of Scottis Corniklis, &c. (Th. Thomson) 3 (Jam.) Schir Thomas Boyde was slane be Alexander Stewart buktuth and his sonnes.] 1753 Hanway Trav. (1762) II. xvi. i. 440 He ordered a man's teeth to be pulled out, for no other reason than their being buck-teeth. 1866 Carlyle Remin., E. Irving 99 An older..bigger boy, with red hair, wild buck teeth, and scorched complexion. |
Hence ˈbuck-toothed ppl. a.
| 1863 Sir J. B. Burke Viciss. Fam. iii. 274 One shall be buck⁓toothed, another hair-lipped and the fourth a stammerer. |