Word for: Someone who has lost, and cannot grow back, their front teeth

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In Semitic languages (notably Arabic, Old Hebrew, and Amharic), there is an adjective to describe someone who has lost their front teeth, typically in an accident or a fight, and can't grow them back (so not a child just shedding their teeth). So someone who has got one or more limbs chopped off is called an amputee, an animal that got its teeth pulled out is defanged, a person who lost two or more teeth in a fight or an accident is called ___?

Tuffy · Answer

No. There is no word in English for such a person. Similarly, Yiddish has a word for the relationship between the mothers of a husband and wife, where there is no such word in English (other than the painful co-mothers-in-law), which I have never heard used. Languages differ so that it is not alway possible to match a word in one language with a corresponding word in another. It is one of the interesting things about languages.

Answered by Tuffy on February 2, 2021

Word for: Someone who has lost, and cannot grow back, their front teeth

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