# toothing

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
2. Teething (growing of teeth).
3. Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.
4. 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. 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).

## Etymology
From tooth + -ing.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/toothing