toothing

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Etymology

From tooth +‎ -ing.

Noun

toothing (countable and uncountable, plural toothings)

1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
2. Teething (growing of teeth).
3. (stamps) Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.
4. (construction) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order to be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.
5. (botany) A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.
6. The suppose use of Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs to arrange random sexual encounters (a hoax intended to highlight journalists' gullibility and poor fact-checking if they reported it as real).
   • 2011, Ulrike Bucher, Maro Finka, The Electronic City, page 69:

     Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners.

Derived terms

• toothing plane

Verb

toothing

1. present participle and gerund of tooth

References

• “toothing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “toothing”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “toothing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.