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Sweet tooth   /swit tuθ/   Listen
Sweet tooth

noun
1.
A strong appetite for sweet food.





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"Sweet tooth" Quotes from Famous Books



... some o' dem fine sugar figs dat's a-swivelin' up every day on top o' dem trees, I'd meck a heap o' money peddlin' 'em on de street." And even while he thought this thought he licked his lips. There were, no doubt, other attractions about the figs for a very small boy with a very sweet tooth. ...
— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... had a very sweet tooth, so he lived for a week on such scraps as he could beg in beggar's plight from door to door; all this in the first ...
— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake
... yonder town and tell the dear old lady who keeps the 'Goody Sweet Tooth-Shop' that we will bring her ...
— The Iceberg Express • David Magie Cory
... she herself had such a big sweet tooth! It was absolutely impossible for her to refuse a piece of stick cinnamon or a peppermint drop. Yesterday she had told the girls she should certainly bring maple sugar to-day. She meant to, too, even ...
— Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land and other Stories • Ellis Towne, Sophie May and Ella Farman


Words linked to "Sweet tooth" :   appetite, appetency, appetence


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