spicy tooth

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English

Etymology

By analogy with sweet tooth.

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Noun

spicy tooth (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic, only in singular, uncommon) A liking for foods that are spicy.
    • 2010 March 25, “Chef Peter Chang Disappears Again”, in The New Yorker:
      A week of fact-checking the story proved too much for my spicy tooth; I made immediate plans to visit Chang's latest restaurant
    • 2020 May 7, Rashmi Trivedi, Women, Everything Will Be Fine, 2 edition, BlueRose Publishers, page 81:
      I not only have a sweet tooth, but I have a salty tooth, a sour tooth, a spicy tooth, you name the taste and I have the damned tooth for it!
    • 2021 November 2, Priyanka Naik, The Modern Tiffin: On-the-Go Vegan Dishes with a Global Flair (A Cookbook), S&S/Simon Element, →ISBN, page 54:
      I will admit, I have a huge sweet tooth (probably larger than my spicy tooth), but I do have a limit as to how sweet I like my desserts.

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