单词 | tooth-picker |
释义 | tooth-pickern.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1545 |
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