picktooth
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]picktooth (plural picktooths)
- (obsolete) A toothpick.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “Dialogue II”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page 185:
- […] where did you get that Pick-Tooth Caſe?
References
[edit]- “picktooth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.