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单词 to cut one's wisdom teeth
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to cut one's wisdom teeth
The hindmost molar tooth on each side of both upper and lower jaws in man, usually ‘cut’ about the age of twenty. Often in to cut one's wisdom teeth, to attain to wisdom or discretion.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > be or become wise [verb (intransitive)]
sape1694
to cut one's wisdom teeth1848
to cut one's teeth1861
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > wisdom
cassall?1541
wit-tooth1601
lag-tooth1611
wisdom tooth1848
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. iv. xiii. 349 The two last are termed Dentes Sapientiæ, the Teeth of Wisedom.
1771 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. sig. Cc8v, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. (ed. 4) Sophronesteres, the..Teeth of Wisdom.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 159 The gamester, finding that I had cut my teeth of wisdom sooner than suited his purpose.]
1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) II. 971 The last molar in each range, owing to its late appearance through the gums, is called the wisdom-tooth.1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. vii. 121 He's noan cut his wisdom-teeth yet.1868 G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose III. 205 It seems..they're all born with their wisdom-teeth cut and their whiskers growed.1872 L. P. Meredith Teeth (1878) 49 The wisdom teeth occasionally erupt as late as the fortieth or fiftieth year.
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