toothachingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From toothaching + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]toothachingly (comparative more toothachingly, superlative most toothachingly)
- So as to cause toothache.
- 1972, R. B. Read, Gastronomic Tour of Mexico:
- Sweeter still — almost toothachingly so — are chongos zamoranos, a curious confection invented in Zamora in which milk, sugar and spices are boiled for about five days then laid away in syrup.
- 1974, New York Magazine:
- While this last could be eliminated for my taste, the overall effect is not as toothachingly sweet as some of these cereals can get.
- 2004, Kij Johnson, Fudoki:
- I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears.
- 2007 June 6, Melissa Clark, “Sweet and Sour Sit Down to Dessert”, in New York Times[1]:
- These two truths coexisted in my mind without overlapping until I bit into a piece of crumb cake so texturally perfect (soft sliver of cake topped by a deep layer of grape-size crumbs), yet so toothachingly sweet that the only antidote was sucking on the lemon in my seltzer.
- 2015, Jax Peters Lowell, The Gluten-Free Revolution:
- It's why McDonald's finally downsized its portions, why you can now bake a gluten-free version of the same Betty Crocker toothachingly sweet cake mix you enjoyed as a child.
- Overly in possession of an otherwise positive trait.
- 1962, The New Republic:
- A college teacher (that makes the heart sink to begin with), he has a literary reputation about which he is agreeably modest (toothachingly), and, since Seymour committed suicide in 1948, Buddy is, at forty, the eldest Glass child.
- 1991: The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks, by Donald C. Farber and Robert Viagas
- The critics complained that the show was toothachingly darling, though the consensus among its creators is that the show was removed from its open-stage concept and placed in a traditional proscenium environment, breaking the important connection between actor and audience.
- Painfully, irritatingly.
- 2011, Ben Jeapes, Jeapes Japes:
- Have you ever wondered how it is possible for someone to drive a motorised vehicle so toothachingly, nerverenderingly slow?