sweet tooth

sweet tooth
{n. phr.} A great weakness or predilection for sweets. * /Sue has such a sweet tooth that she hardly eats anything else but cake./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • Sweet tooth — Sweet Sweet, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te, OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s[ u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr, s[oe]tr, Sw. s[ o]t, Dan. s[ o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sweet tooth — noun singular someone who has a sweet tooth likes to eat sweet food …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • sweet tooth — fondness for sugary stuff, late 14c., from SWEET (Cf. sweet) (adj.) + tooth in the sense of taste, liking (see TOOTHSOME (Cf. toothsome)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • sweet tooth — If you have a sweet tooth, you like eating food with sugar in it …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • sweet tooth — ► NOUN (pl. sweet tooths) ▪ a great liking for sweet tasting foods …   English terms dictionary

  • sweet tooth — sweet′ tooth n. a liking or craving for sweets • Etymology: 1350–1400 …   From formal English to slang

  • sweet tooth — n. Informal a fondness or craving for sweets …   English World dictionary

  • Sweet Tooth — Сладкоежка Sweet Tooth Обложка 1 выпуска серии. История Издатель …   Википедия

  • sweet tooth — noun a strong appetite for sweet food • Hypernyms: ↑appetite, ↑appetency, ↑appetence * * * noun Etymology: Middle English swete toth, from swete sweet + toth tooth more at sw …   Useful english dictionary

  • Sweet Tooth — Comic Land Kanada Autor Jeff Lemire …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sweet Tooth — A sweet tooth is a fondness for foods that are sweet.Sweet Tooth may also refer to:* Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal), a character in the Twisted Metal video game series * Sweet Tooth (comics), a strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips , and… …   Wikipedia

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