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toothdrawer

toothdrawer is the alternative form of tooth-drawer.

Meaning of tooth-drawer

Noun

tooth-drawer (plural tooth-drawers)

  1. (archaic, derogatory) Someone who draws teeth; a dentist.
    • worn in the cap of a tooth-drawerc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of toothdrawer

pluraltoothdrawers

Questions about toothdrawer

What is toothdrawer the alternative form of?
Toothdrawer is the alternative form of tooth-drawer.

Words near toothdrawer in the dictionary

  1. toothcombed
  2. toothcombing
  3. toothcombings
  4. toothcombs
  5. Toothdale
  6. toothdrawer
  7. toothdrawers
  8. toothdrawing
  9. toothed
  10. toothed jelly fungi
  11. toothed jelly fungus

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