The phrase ὀξύλαλον παρίδῃ θήγοντος ὀδόντα presents a striking example of Aristophanic wordplay and syntactic compression. The participle θήγοντος (genitive singular of θήγων) governs the genitive ὀδόντα, but the semantic force of the construction relies on the double meaning of ὀξύλαλος: literally 'sharp-tongued' (a common epithet for a rhetorician or scold) but here punningly linked to the physical act of 'sharpening a tooth' (θήγοντος ὀδόντα). This creates a visual gag where the 'sharp-tongued' man is imagined literally sharpening his tooth, a grotesque image characteristic of Old Comedy's physical humor. The construction is syntactically rare in that the genitive participle modifies a noun that is itself the object of a verb of seeing (παρίδῃ) in a way that collapses the distinction between the metaphorical 'sharp tongue' and the literal 'sharp tooth', a pun likely lost on readers unfamiliar with the specific comic convention of bodily grotesquerie in Aristophanes.