"Tenía el pelo como cepillo de limpiar piso y ya había mudado los dientes"

Question

This sentence is from a translation of Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins - a book for 1st to 3rd graders.

I think it means "He had hair like a mop and already had lost teeth". Does that sound right?

cepilla de limpiar piso - I saw a translated copy of the book and its supposed to mean scrub brush. - schub, SEP 17, 2009

mudar los dientes seems to be a phrase for loosing one's baby teeth. - schub, SEP 17, 2009

Answer 1

That's looks like what it is saying if indeed you shed your teeth in Spanish. Also the translation is not literal.