"teethies" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From teeth + -ies. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|teeth|ies}} teeth + -ies Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} teethies pl (plural only)
  1. (childish) Teeth. Tags: childish, plural, plural-only Related terms: toothie

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          "ref": "1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, Farrar, Straus and Company, page 11",
          "text": "Lil Kitty comes up and gricks wet nose and teethies against Gerard’s outheld forefinger, ‘Whattayawant, Ploo pli?—[…]",
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          "ref": "2009, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song, Faber and Faber, page 75",
          "text": "[…] he starts drilling into Georgie’s soft tooth, […] Georgie has to pay the surgery forty-odd pound for the pleasure of having her teethies hurt.",
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          "ref": "2010, Amy Campbell, The Fish in My Drain: Ava’s Adventures, Tate Publishing & Enterprises",
          "text": "Now as Mom says, ‘Time to brush our teethies!’",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers",
          "text": "Run fer yer lives! It’s a hideous sight! A tail and long whiskers and teethies that bite!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Seana Kelly, The Wicche Glass Tavern (Sam Quinn; 3), NYLA Publishing",
          "text": "Something was hidden up there, something, I was willing to bet, that was undead, with big sharp teethies.",
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          "ref": "2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers",
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