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Raffzahn.

crooked upper incisor jutting out under the upper lip

8 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈʁafˌt͡saːn]
  1. crooked upper incisor jutting out under the upper lip

    colloquial · masculine · strong
  2. greedy bastard, puttock (a person who is grabby, greedy, grasping, rapacious)

    derogatory · masculine · slang · strong
  3. glutton, greedyguts, greedy pig (one who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess)

    colloquial · masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

raffen (“to grab, grasp, snatch up”) + Zahn (“tooth”). The word, in its first sense, is an inherited word whose oldest attested form so far is Late Middle High German reffzan “incisor” that originally might have applied the probable sense “carnassial, fang; tusk”. The extension to human teeth developed probably by comparison for instance with a tusk. From 1800 onwards the word then also applied the second and third sense which semantically overlapped with the sense “snatch up” of the German verb raffen.

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