/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Gat-tooth (g hard)
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Goat-tooth. (Anglo-Saxon, gæt.) Goat-toothed is having a lickerish tooth. Chaucer makes the wife of Bath say, “Gat-toothed I was, and that became me wele.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.