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    Describing someone whose teeth are uneven, crooked, gappy, or broken — teeth that stick out at odd angles instead of sitting in a neat row. It is a picture word, used far more in stories than in daily speech: a snaggle-toothed old pirate, a snaggle-toothed grin. Because it draws attention to the mouth, it usually sounds about a person, so you would not say it to someone's face or use it about a friend. In fiction, though, it is often in a rough way — a snaggle-toothed dog you love, a snaggle-toothed old man who turns out to be the kind one. Writers reach for it because it does a lot of work in one word: you immediately see the face, and often guess the character is poor, old, wild, or has had a hard life. It is also used of animals, especially dogs. The related noun snaggletooth means one such tooth. Dentists and doctors do not use this word; they would say crooked teeth or a misaligned bite.

    牙齒亂七八糟的、暴牙的、缺牙又歪的(形容人的牙齒不整齊或缺損)。多用在描寫人物長相,說人時帶不禮貌的味道

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組成snaggle (from snag, something that sticks out and catches) + tooth + -ed. A snag is a jagged bit that catches on things — so snaggle-toothed teeth are the ones that stick out and catch.

同家族的字

  • snagthe root — a sharp thing sticking out, which is what these teeth do

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。