单词 | toothy-peg |
释义 | ˈtoothy-peg Also toospeg. [f. *toothy, dim. of tooth n. + peg n.1] Nursery word for ‘tooth’. Also used joc. in other contexts.
1828Hood Kilmansegg, Childh. iv, Cutting her first little toothy-peg. 1921‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 3 Feb. (1928) II. 91 When the time comes just put your toospeg brush, pyjamas and a collar..into a handkerchief. 1931A. Christie Sittaford Mystery xxi. 171 [He] took his elephant's trotters and his hippopotamus's toothy pegs and all the sporting rifles and what nots. 1977J. Wilson Making Hate vi. 71 It's those toothypegs, isn't it, my lovey, those naughty old toothypegs. |

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