| 释义 |
ˈtooth-ˌpicker
†1. = prec. 1. Obs.
1545Rates Custome House b j b, Ere pikers or tothe pikers of bone the groce xii d. 1591Florio 2nd Fruites 61, I praie thee giue me a little stick, or a tooth picker. 1655Culpepper Riverius vi. ii. 134 To preserve the Teeth, first clense them with a Tooth-picker of Mastich Wood. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 185 Lentisc is a beautiful evergreen..; it makes the best Tooth-pickers in the World.
2. One who picks the teeth; in first quot. used of a bird which was fabled to pick the teeth of the crocodile; in second quot. with allusion to this.
1612Webster White Devil iv. iii, Away flies the pretty tooth-picker from her cruell patient. a1653G. Daniel Idyll. iii. 37 The Civetts of an Officer, Whose Tooth-picker, like ye Officious Bird Betrayes him Sleeping. |