10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «TOOTHY-PEG»
Descubre el uso de
toothy-peg en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
toothy-peg y pequeños extractos de los mismos para contextualizar su uso en la literatura.
According to the OED2 toothy-peg is a “nursery word” for tooth, but can also be
used jocularly in other contexts. Apart from toothy-pegs, all derivations in my data
with this suffix are taken from Peter Shaffer's play Black Comedy (1968).
2
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(Granville) Cf.:toothy-peg. A tooth: nursery coll.: 1828, Hood, 'Turn we to little Miss
Kilmansegg,/Cutting her first little toothy-peg.' By itself, toothy, a child's tooth, is
less common: lit., a little tooth. tooting. See too damn tootingl; MISCELLANEA, ...
3
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
'They affected, as the badge of their tribe, a crutch-handled stick and a toothpick,'
F. & H. toothy-peg . A tooth: nursery coll: 1828, Hood, 'Turn we to little Miss
Kilmansegg, |Cutting her first little toothy-peg.' By itself, toothy, a child's tooth, is
less ...
4
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
Nomenclator, s.v. Denti- scalpium. Curedent. A tooth-scraper, or tooth-rake.
Toothy-peg, subs. phr. (nursery). —A tooth. 1839. Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. Turn
we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her first little toothy-peg. Tooting-tub, subs.
phr.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1904
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Children's Language: Revised Edition: Consensus and Controversy
There is a limited vocabulary, and the words cluster around a few topic areas: (a)
BODILY PARTS: handy-pandy, toothy(-wootsy), toothy-peg, nosy-posy, botty(—
wotty); (b) ANIMALS: moo-cow, baalamb, bow—wow, piggy—wiggy, birdie, ...
But, to leave the happy Phelim alone, Gnawing, perchance, a marrowless bone,
For which no dog would quarrel — Turn we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her
first little toothy-peg With a fifty-guinea coral — A peg upon which About poor ...
7
The Comic Poems of T. H. Edited by S. Lucas ... With Preface ...
But to leave the happy Phelim alone, Gnawing, perchance, a marrowless bone,
For which no dog would quarrel— Turn we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her
first little toothy-peg 'With a fifty-guinea coral— A peg upon which About poor and
...
Thomas Hood, Samuel LUCAS (M.A., Barrister-at-Law.), 1867
8
The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and ...
But to leave the happy Phelim alone, Gnawing, perchance, a marrowless bone,
For which no dog would quarrel—Turn we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her
first little toothy-peg With a fifty-guinea coral—A peg upon which About poor and
...
9
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
But, to leave the happy Phelim alone, Gnawing, perchance, a marrowless bone,
For which no dog would quarrel — Turn we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her
first little toothy-peg With a fifty guinea coral — A peg upon which About poor and
...
Thomas Hood, William Michael Rossetti, 1874
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The Comic annual. By T. Hood
But to leave the happy Phelim alone, Gnawing, perchance, a marrowless bone,
For which no dog would quarrel — Turn we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her
first little toothy-peg With a fifty guinea coral — A peg upon which About poor and
...
