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Where does “snaggletoothed” come from?

snaggletoothed (English) comes from English snaggle, from English Le, from French lé, from French moine, from Middle French moine, from Old French monie, from Latin monicus.

snaggletoothed (English): Having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise...

Definitions

  1. Having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise...

Ancestry of “snaggletoothed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsnaggleA tangled, knotted, or intertwined mass; To...
2EnglishLe—
3Frenchlébreadth, width; strip, length
4Frenchmoinemonk
5Middle Frenchmoinemonk
6Old Frenchmonie—
7Latinmonicus—
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