Obs. exc. dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [WANG1.] A cheek-tooth, molar.
a. 1000. Laws Ælfred, xlix. 1. ʓif hit sie wongtoð, ʓeselle IIII scill. to bote.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 157. Molares, uel genuini, wangteð.
c. 1325. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. (MS. Arundel), in Wright, Voc., 146. Les messeleres, wange-teȝ [read -teþ; MS. Cambr. wangeteth].
1382. Wyclif, Judg. xv. 19. And so the Lord opnede a woong tooth [1388 wang tooth; Vulg. molarem dentem] in the cheek boon of the asse.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monk’s T., 54. And of this asses cheke, that was dreye, Out of a wang tooth sprang anon a welle.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXIII. 191. He … bete oute my wang-teþ.
1483. Cath. Angl., 406/1. A Waynge tothe [v.r. Vange tothe], genuinus, maxillaris.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, 182. Take them and cut away their nether lawe wherein there wang teeth be set.
1607. Markham, Cavel., I. (1617), 79. His two tushes of his nether chappe, and the two wongge teeth of the same next to the tushes.
1659. Somner, Dict., s.v. Wang, That old rime: And in witness that this is sooth, I bite the wax with my wang tooth.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, s.v., The Wang-tooth; the Jaw-tooth.
