toothachen.
/ˈtuːθeɪk/, U.S. /ˈtuθˌeɪk/ An ache or continuous pain in a tooth or the teeth. (As a malady, commonly the tooth ache down to 19th cent. See the adj. 7a.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth
toothache1377
teeth-workc1440
tooth-warkc1480
the worma1583
tooth-pain?1593
odontalgy1651
odontalgia1706
tooth-aching1709
tooth-edge1794
teeth-ache1890
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 81 Coughes, and cardiacles, crampes, and tothaches.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 215 The kyng..sayd he had the tooth ache.
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 321 The phtiseik, þe twithȝaik [v.r. toothaike], þe tittis, and þe tirrillis.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 20 I haue the tooth-ach . View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 36 There was neuer yet Philosopher, That could endure the tooth-ake patiently. View more context for this quotation
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 56 Some persons used certain verses of the psalter as an antidote against tooth-ach.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶4 She lay ill of the Tooth-ach.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 581 Engaged at home by a violent toothache.
1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 132 A charm for the tooth-ach.
1887 Times 26 Aug. 7/4 All that is the matter with him is a fit of toothache.
Compounds
C1. attributive, usually denoting something used as a remedy for toothache, as toothache spell, toothache tincture;
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1616 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 655 It is but like some of our Tooth-ake Spells, Which for the present seem to ease the Pain.
C2.
toothache-grass n. a North American grass ( Ctenium americanum) having a very pungent taste.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American
salt grass1704
wiregrass1751
Indian grass1765
buffalo grass1784
blue-eyed grass1785
mountain rice1790
nimble Will1816
yard-grass1822
mesquite1831
poverty-grass1832
tickle-moth1833
bunch-grass1837
naked-beard grass1848
needle grass1848
Means grass1858
toothache-grass1860
Johnson grass1873
Indian rice grass1893
nigger babies1897
St. Augustine grass1905
pinyon ricegrass1935
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Toothache-grass.
toothache-tree n. (a) name for several North American species of the genus Xanthoxylon, having pungent aromatic fruit, esp. X. fraxineum, also called prickly ash; (b) the similar North American Aralia spinosa, also called angelica-tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > prickly ash
prickly ash1705
toothache-tree1731
1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 428 Zanthoxylum spinosum,..the Pellitory or Tooth-ach Tree.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tooth-ache Tree, a common name for the tree Aralia spinosa.
Derivatives
ˈtoothˌachy adj. colloquial affected with toothache.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [adjective] > in teeth
astoniedc1350
anedged1562
raginga1616
odontalgic1703
toothachy1838
1838 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 269 Toothachy and tired, I have been writing this letter.
1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 72 That is how she got the toothachy look.
ˈtooth-ˌaching n. aching of the teeth, toothache.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth
toothache1377
teeth-workc1440
tooth-warkc1480
the worma1583
tooth-pain?1593
odontalgy1651
odontalgia1706
tooth-aching1709
tooth-edge1794
teeth-ache1890
1709 Brit. Apollo 15–20 Apr. I was taken With a vi'lent Tooth-aching.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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