toothing
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English
Etymology
Noun
toothing (countable and uncountable, plural toothings)
- The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
- Teething (growing of teeth).
- (stamps) Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.
- (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.
- (botany) A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.
- 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).
- 2011, Ulrike Bucher, Maro Finka, The Electronic City, page 69:
- Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners.
Derived terms
Verb
toothing
- present participle and gerund of tooth
References
- “toothing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “toothing”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “toothing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.