Toothing

Quick meaning: Toothing is a noun meaning The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Meaning

The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

More Meanings

1. Teething (growing of teeth).
2. (stamps) Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.
3. (botany) A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.
4. present participle and gerund of tooth
5. (construction) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order to be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.
6. The suppose use of Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs to arrange random sexual encounters (a hoax intended to highlight journalists' gullibility and poor fact-checking if they reported it as real).

Example Sentences

Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners.

Word Forms

• toothings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include toothy, buck-toothed, jaggy, bucktooth, gap-toothed, saber-toothed.

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