sweet-tooth

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Transcription

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

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

Definition of sweet-tooth word

noun sweet-tooth a liking or craving for candy and other sweets. 1

Just one definition for sweet-tooth

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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

Full grammatical hierarchy of Sweet-tooth

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 71% 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.