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Definition of "toothing"

toothing

  • noun

    countable and uncountable, plural toothings

    1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.  

    2. (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.  

    3. A hoax claim that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters, perpetrated as a prank to "highlight how journalists are happy to believe something is true without necessarily checking the facts".  

  • verb

    1. present participle and gerund of tooth  

Similar words

  • soothing
  • smoothing
  • booting
  • clothing
  • footing
  • loathing
  • looting
  • mouthing
  • nothing
  • rooting

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