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Teeth vs Toothly - What's the difference?

teeth | toothly |

As a noun teeth

is .

As an adjective toothly is

of or pertaining to teeth; dental.

As an adverb toothly is

in a manner regarding teeth; dentally.

teeth

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.

    • Synonyms

    * (plural of "tooth") chompers, pearly whites * (ability to be enforced) enforceability

    Derived terms

    * arm to the teeth * by the skin of one's teeth * cut one's teeth * get one's teeth into / sink one's teeth into * give one's eye-teeth * gnash one's teeth * grit one's teeth * in the teeth of * lie through one's teeth * set one's teeth on edge

    See also

    * toothless English irregular plurals

    toothly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of or pertaining to teeth; dental.
  • * 1907 , The Bay State monthly:
    • For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid "toothly ," as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one.
  • * 1998 , Sheila De La Rosa, The Encyclopedia of Weird :
    • Peter stored his toothly treasures in a beautiful wooden case. Each tooth was secured to its own little compartment with a gray silk ribbon looped around it.
  • Toothy.
  • * 1997 , Kalpana Swaminathan, Cryptic death and other stories :
    • 'I see you're admiring our decor,' the man said with a toothly smile, and Paresh noticed that his canines bit wolfishly into his thick mulberry lip.
  • * 2010 , Robert Crudup, Malachi Moon: Journey of a Bluesman :
    • She returned a toothly grin that displayed her deep, pretty dimples.

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • In a manner regarding teeth; dentally.
  • * 1934 , Popular science talks: Volume 12:
    • Toothly speaking then — it pays to stay savage. There is evidence too, that civilizations long before ours felt the stress of dental cares.

    Synonyms

    * (l)