- toothache
- noun Date: 14th century pain in or about a tooth
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Toothache — Tooth ache , n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. [1913 Webster] {Toothache grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Ctenium Americanum}) having a very pungent taste. {Toothache tree}. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
toothache — (n.) late 14c., from TOOTH (Cf. tooth) + ACHE (Cf. ache) (n.) … Etymology dictionary
toothache — ► NOUN ▪ pain in a tooth or teeth … English terms dictionary
toothache — [to͞oth′āk΄] n. pain in or near a tooth … English World dictionary
toothache — n. to get, have a toothache (AE)/get, have (a) toothache (BE) * * * [ tuːθeɪk] have a toothache (AE) /get have (a) toothache (BE) to get … Combinatory dictionary
toothache — tooth|ache [ˈtu:θ eık] n [U and C] a pain in a tooth ▪ I ve got toothache . ▪ I had terrible toothache all last night … Dictionary of contemporary English
toothache — tooth|ache [ tuθ,eık ] noun singular or uncount a pain in one or more of your teeth: He s got a really bad toothache … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
toothache — [[t]tu͟ːθeɪk[/t]] N UNCOUNT Toothache is pain in one of your teeth … English dictionary
toothache — UK [ˈtuːθeɪk] / US [ˈtuθˌeɪk] noun [singular/uncountable] a pain in one or more of your teeth He s got really bad toothache … English dictionary
toothache — The following *charm was collected by M. A. Denham in the north of England in the 1840s (Denham, 1895: 9 10): Peter was sitting on a marble stone And Jesus passed by Peter said, My Lord! My God! How my tooth doth ache! Jesus… … A Dictionary of English folklore
