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单词 tooth-picker
释义

tooth-pickern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtooth-ˌpicker.
1. = toothpick n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for
picker1481
toothpick1488
picktooth1542
tooth-picker1545
tooth-scrape1552
pick1562
tooth-rake1585
tooth-scraper1585
teeth-brush1651
dentiscalp1656
toothbrush1690
quill toothpick1775
quill1785
chew-stick1858
tooth-stick1859
dental silk1907
dental floss1922
floss1936
airbrasive1945
Water Pik1962
water toothpick1965
1545 Rates Custome House sig. bjv Ere pikers or tothe pikers of bone the groce xii.d.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 61 I praie thee giue me a little stick, or a tooth picker.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vi. ii. 134 To preserve the Teeth, first clense them with a Tooth-picker of Mastich Wood.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (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.
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the world > animals > birds > [noun] > that picks crocodile's teeth
trochilus1578
trochil1604
tooth-picker1612
1612 J. Webster White Divel iv. iii Away flies the pretty tooth-picker from her cruell patient.
a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iii. 37 The Civetts of an Officer, Whose Tooth-picker, like ye Officious Bird Betrayes him Sleeping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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