eyetooth

From eye +‎ tooth, so called because of their position directly below the eyes.^[1]

eyetooth (plural eyeteeth)

1. A canine tooth of the upper jaw in humans.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     She called us by all our names, and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eyeteeth.

• eye tooth
• eye-tooth

• cut one's eyeteeth
• give one's eye-teeth