I have no teeth, no claws, and no jaw, yet when icy winter gales blow across the snow, I can nip painfully at your fingers and toes. What seasonal menace am I?
Frostbite
Frostbite wordplays on the idea of 'biting' without having literal teeth or a mouth.
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