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toothing

noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Teething (growing of teeth).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: stamps

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noun

Meaning 4

Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order to be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, construction, manufacturing

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noun

Meaning 5

A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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noun

Meaning 6

The suppose use of Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs to arrange random sexual encounters (a hoax intended to highlight journalists' gullibility and poor fact-checking if they reported it as real).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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7

verb

Meaning 7

present participle and gerund of tooth

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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History

Etymology

From tooth + -ing.