picktooth
English
Etymology
Noun
picktooth (plural picktooths)
- (obsolete) A toothpick.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “(please specify the page)”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC:
- where did you get that picktooth case?
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “picktooth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)