Meaning of sweet tooth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A liking for foods that are sweet; a weakness for sweets.
   idiomatic, singular
2. Someone with a liking for sweet foods.
   countable, idiomatic
3. An edible fungus of species Hydnum repandum.
4. A preference, especially for a kind of food.

Equivalents

Examples

“He eats a healthy diet most of the time, but has a sweet tooth when it comes to candy.”

“the python has a sweet tooth for rats and mice and the sweet tooth of this particular snake is on edge for a square meal.”

“Prowlers are on the loose in suburban Denver. Description: pointy ears, bushy tails and a sweet tooth for poodle and cat.”

“But my grandmother had, in my father's words, a "sweet tooth” for meat.”

“In the same way I developed a craving for doughnuts, my sweet tooth for God's Word developed by repetition.”

“".... She had a sweet tooth for booze." "Did she have a sweet tooth for drugs?"”

“I have high hopes though, because mother always did have a sweet tooth for rather nice men, you see father was tremendously attractive.”

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