sweet tooth

Origin

noun

a liking or craving for candy and other sweets.

Sweet tooth Definition Dictionary.com Find Definitions For Any Word.Get Your Free Dictionary.com Toolbar.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source

Link To sweet tooth

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Sweet tooth is always a great word to know.

So is quincunx. Does it mean:

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Collins

World English Dictionary

sweet tooth

—n
	a strong liking for sweet foods

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

sweet tooth

"fondness for sugary stuff," late 14c., from sweet (adj.) + tooth in the sense of "taste, liking" (see toothsome under tooth).

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

sweet tooth

A love for sugary foods, as in You can always please Nell with cake or ice cream; she has a big sweet tooth. This expression dates from the late 1300s, although it then referred not only to sweets but other delicacies as well.

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for sweet tooth?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

Matching Quote

"With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping "homeliness" entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all "sentiment" is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called "the Public," the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state."

-Percy Wyndham Lewis