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  • noun Plural form of milk-tooth.

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Examples

  • Music greats as diverse as Stan Getz and the Blues Project recorded classic albums there, folkies like Stephen Stills transitioned into rockers there, up-and-coming comedians like Richard Pryor and Lily Tomlin cut their comedic milk-teeth there.

    Last Words George Carlin 2009

  • “Little Breeches” was the sentimental saga of little Gabe, a four-year-old whose father had “larnt him to chaw terbacker / Jest to keep his milk-teeth white.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • “Little Breeches” was the sentimental saga of little Gabe, a four-year-old whose father had “larnt him to chaw terbacker / Jest to keep his milk-teeth white.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Its first erections are often only the milk-teeth of a suburb, and as the district rises in dignity they are dislodged by those which are to endure.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • When I consider the sharp, tiny milk-teeth of those puppies, protruding from gums now white with blood loss, I am filled with a righteous and long-abiding anger.

    Wagging fingers Sean 2005

  • Grandpa had said that ‘a dinner was no dinner if milk-teeth were allowed at it.’

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • And back they come, as good as gold, with Master George at the head of them, and asked me what milk-teeth was.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • ‘He found his milk-teeth easily at any rate,’ said the old lady.

    Kim 2003

  • She watched critically as they experimented with their milk-teeth on this unfamiliar substance.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • "He shore is showing hisself to be a friendly native," commented the man who had sacrificed milk-teeth investigating the indestructible doll.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

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