Citations:British teeth

English citations of British teeth

Noun: "(informal, pejorative, of humans) imperfect or unattractive teeth"

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• 2001 November 14, Dipsy [username], “The Dentist”, in bigweek.general‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Americans pay a lot of attention to teeth.
  
  The British don't.
  
  In the UK, you deal with the hand dealt you whilst making some cursory attempts at keeping everything functional.
  
  There isn't the same gusto-driven campaign to achieve a day-time soap smile at all costs by the age of sixteen.
  
  I have British teeth.

• 2002 November 19, Fish Eye no Miko [username] (quoting Frenchy), “Re: Bad teeth: Spoiler, if you've never actually seen British teeth...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[2] (Usenet):

  > Man oh man, does Marcus Flint need to get his teeth fixed! I think
  > that is the W*O*R*S*T case of British teeth I have E*V*E*R
  > seen in my life! Get thee to an orthodontist, child!!!

• 2005 March 6, Fett, “Re: The Visitation DVD R1”, in rec.arts.drwho‎^[3] (Usenet):

  LOL! I just noticed this comment. Austin Powers comes to mind. It's true though. Some people have "British teeth" and god help those people.

• 2006 February 10, Tim May, “Why do so many young women eat with one hand in front of their mouth?”, in ba.food‎^[4] (Usenet):

  Today, it seems that nearly all the women under about 30 are doing this mouth-hiding thing. And it's not because they're chewing with their mouths open, or that they have British teeth, or anything.

• 2009 July 13, Shrikeback [username], “Re: Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients”, in sci.econ‎^[5] (Usenet):

  "Social medicine?" Well, in any case, we all know socialized anything puts breaks on all kinds of activities, just as socialized agriculture puts the breaks on eating. Eventually, I guess we'll all have British teeth.