Pronounced: TOOTH-sum, adj
Notes: I thought this word meant something like having or showing a lot of teeth
Yesterday’s word
The word perforce means “out of necessity”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1300s
Background / Comments
I thought that our word meant “by force”, which is is reasonable because it came from the Old French phrase par force (by force), which came from par (by) and force, which came from the Latin word per (by) and fortis (strong).
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