Having prominent protruding front teeth; characterized by teeth that stick out noticeably.
'Bucktooth' plus the adjective suffix '-ed,' forming an adjective meaning 'having buckteeth.' This descriptive term became standardized in English around the early 1900s.
The term 'bucktoothed' appears throughout literature as a character descriptor, from Mark Twain to modern novels—it's one of few dental descriptions that became both a physical description and a character archetype.
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