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Picktooth   Listen
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Picktooth  n.  A toothpick. (Obs.)





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"Picktooth" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a while so buried in this thought that he became a counterpart to the stone, and looked like a marble image making love to the other marble. And this unhappy fancy fixing itself in his head, as he searched for it everywhere with the lanthorn of desire, it grew in four seconds from a picktooth to a pole, from a crab-apple to an Indian pumpkin, from barber's embers to a glass furnace, and from a dwarf to a giant; insomuch that he thought of nothing else than the image of that object encrusted in his heart as stone ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
 
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