toothing

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth. countable,uncountable
  2. Teething (growing of teeth). countable,uncountable
  3. Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet. countable,uncountable
  4. 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. countable,uncountable
  5. A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf. countable,uncountable
  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). countable,uncountable
    — Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of tooth form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

toothings plural

词汇关系

衍生词

词源

词源 1
From tooth + -ing.
词源 2
From tooth + -ing.
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