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toothache|ˈtuːθeɪk|
Forms: see tooth n. and ache n.; also 4–7 -ake, 6 Sc. -aike, -ȝaik, 7–9 -ach.
An ache or continuous pain in a tooth or the teeth. (As a malady, commonly the tooth ache down to 19th. c. See the 8.)
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 81 Coughes, and cardiacles, crampes, and tothaches. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ix. 215 The Kyng..sayd he had the tooth ache. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 321 The phtiseik, þe twithȝaik [v.r. toothaike], þe tittis, and þe tirrillis. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. ii. 21, I haue the tooth-ach. Ibid. v. i. 36 There was neuer yet Philosopher, That could endure the tooth-ake patiently. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. Disc. xvi. 56 Some persons used certain verses of the psalter as an antidote against tooth-ach. 1711Addison Spect. No. 7 ⁋4 She lay ill of the Tooth-ach. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 581 Engaged at home by a violent toothache. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 221 A charm for the tooth-ach. 1887Times 26 Aug. 7/4 All that is the matter with him is a fit of toothache.
b. attrib., usually denoting something used as a remedy for toothache, as toothache spell, toothache tincture; toothache-grass, a N. American grass (Ctenium americanum) having a very pungent taste; toothache-tree, (a) name for several N. American species of the genus Xanthoxylon, having pungent aromatic fruit, esp. X. fraxineum, also called prickly ash; (b) the similar N. American Aralia spinosa, also called angelica-tree.
1616Sylvester Tobacco Battered 655 It is but like some of our Tooth-ake Spells, Which for the present seem to ease the Pain. 1730Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 428 Zanthoxylum spinosum,..the Pellitory or Tooth-ach Tree. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tooth-ache Tree, a common name for the tree Aralia spinosa. 1860Worcester, Toothache-grass.
Hence ˈtoothˌachy a. (colloq.), affected with toothache. So ˈtooth-ˌaching, aching of the teeth, toothache.
1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 7. 3/2, I was taken With a vi'lent Tooth-aching. 1838Lady Granville Lett. (1894) II. 269 Toothachy and tired, I have been writing this letter. 1900E. Glyn Visits Elizabeth (1906) 72 That is how she got the toothachy look. |