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  • ‘When I was young I stood my turn of the teethache like a man! for why? because it couldn’t last for ever; but these rheumatics come to live and die with you.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • That was ten years ago, and he's never had the teethache sence.

    Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • 'When I was young I stood my turn of the teethache like a man! for why? because it couldn't last for ever; but these rheumatics come to live and die with you.

    Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • – my wife would ha 'done it, as she had ought to, if she wa'n't down with the teethache, and Catherine's away on a jig to Kenton, and the men won't do so much work on nothin', and I can't say nothin 'to 'em if they don't; and I'd like to get that' ere clover-field down afore night: it's goin 'to be a fine spell o' weather.

    Queechy 1854

  • — my wife would ha 'done it, as she had ought to, if she wa'n't down with the teethache, and Catherine's away on a jig to Kenton, and the men wont do so much work on nothin', and I can't say nothin 'to 'em if they don't; and I'd like to get that' ere clover-field down afore night: it's goin 'to be a fine spell

    Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

  • This bein 'in love is harder'n the teethache, an' is enough ter make one feel like hopin 'ter be an old maid. "

    Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

  • How would you go to work to cure the teethache now, s'posin 'you had it? "

    Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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  • (noun) - Toothache; said when more than one tooth gives trouble; same error as exemplified in the British "parcels post" but unlike the proper "attorneys-general"; so called because more than one parcel is carried.

    --Gilbert Tucker's American English, 1921

    January 16, 2018