[f. BUCK sb.1 + TOOTH.] A large projecting tooth. Also attrib.
[a. 1550. Addicioun of Scottis Corniklis, &c. (Th. Thomson) 3 (Jam.). Schir Thomas Boyde was slane be Alexander Stewart buktuth and his sonnes.]
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), II. XVI. I. 440. He ordered a man’s teeth to be pulled out, for no other reason than their being buck-teeth.
1866. Carlyle, Remin., E. Irving, 99. An older … bigger boy, with red hair, wild buck teeth, and scorched complexion.
Hence Buck-toothed ppl. a.
1863. Sir B. Burke, Viciss. Fam., III. 274. One shall be buck-toothed, another hair-lipped and the fourth a stammerer.
