"toothly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.",
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      "form": "toothlier",
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      "form": "more toothly",
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      "form": "most toothly",
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          "text": "For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid \"toothly,\" as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "Of or pertaining to teeth; dental."
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to teeth",
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          "ref": "1997, Kalpana Swaminathan, Cryptic death and other stories",
          "text": "'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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Robert Crudup, Malachi Moon: Journey of a Bluesman",
          "text": "She returned a toothly grin that displayed her deep, pretty dimples.",
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        "Toothy."
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          "note": "of smile, grin etc.",
          "sense": "toothy",
          "word": "leveä"
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  "etymology_text": "From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.",
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          "text": "Toothly speaking then — it pays to stay savage. There is evidence too, that civilizations long before ours felt the stress of dental cares."
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          "text": "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.",
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        "Of or pertaining to teeth; dental."
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        },
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          "text": "She returned a toothly grin that displayed her deep, pretty dimples.",
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      "sense": "of or pertaining to teeth",
      "word": "hammas-"
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      "note": "of smile, grin etc.",
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      "word": "leveä"
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