Snaggletooth (Rebroadcast) - 3 January 2021
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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What's a Snaggle Tooth?
"i've been doing volunteer work at the san diego humane society for about three or four years, and a in adoptions. And this gorgeous, falling in love immediately dog comes over to me and puts his two front paws upon my lap," she says. "And i look down at him, and he just wants to lick me and give me kisses, what have you." The root of snaggle tooth is simply snag, which in the sixteenth century meant a stump of a tree or a branch that's been broken off.
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