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- noun Plural form of
milk-tooth .
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Examples
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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
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“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
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“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
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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.
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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
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Grandpa had said that ‘a dinner was no dinner if milk-teeth were allowed at it.’
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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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
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‘He found his milk-teeth easily at any rate,’ said the old lady.
Kim 2003
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She watched critically as they experimented with their milk-teeth on this unfamiliar substance.
The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984
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"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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