sweet tooth

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [sweet tooth]
- /swit tuθ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [sweet tooth]
- /swit tuθ/

Definitions of sweet tooth words

noun sweet tooth a liking or craving for candy and other sweets. 1
noun sweet tooth fondness for sugary foods 1
noun sweet tooth a strong liking for sweet foods 0
noun sweet tooth a fondness or craving for sweets 0

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Origin of sweet tooth

First appearance:

before 1350

One of the 20% oldest English words

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400

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Parts of speech for Sweet tooth

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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sweet tooth popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 37% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 68% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

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Synonyms for sweet tooth

noun sweet tooth

addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
appetite — Your appetite is your desire to eat.
big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.

All 18 Synonyms of sweet tooth