dentistess
nounEtymology From dentist + -ess.
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Rare A female dentist.
- In the so-called “learned professions” in the United States there are already five hundred and thirty doctresses, sixty-eight preacheresses, and about half a dozen lawyeresses, besides four hundred and twenty dentistesses.1879 February 5, “Utilizing Natural Force”, in The Cincinnati Daily Star, volume 15, number 31, Cincinnati, Oh., column 2:
- A Boston dentistess is so pretty that “she could coax a man’s tooth out by just putting her hand under his chin and asking for it.1883 January 29, “Personal Points”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume XXXI, number 195, St. Louis, Mo., page 4, column 3:
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- Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Olney are still rejoicing over the late arrival at their home of a little dentist or dentistess.1886 May 27, “Town and County”, in The Dispatch, fifteenth year, number 12, Clay Center, Kan., page 5, column 3:
- When she had finished her studies she put up a sign which read: “Miss Fanny Pullem, Dentistess.” “As a dentistess she thought that there would not be much difficulty in pulling through.1888 June 9, “How She Won Him”, in Nemaha County Republican, volume XII, number 37, Sabetha, Kan., column 4:
- The inhabitants of Gold Bug had never realized that a dentist, or “dentistess,” as Slivers called this one, was so badly needed in the camp.1906, Dennis H. Stovall, “On and off the Water Wagon”, in The Gold Bug Story Book: Mining Camp Tales by a Western Writer, Denver, Colo.: Reinert Publishing Company, page 37:
- Does it hurt? / You couldn’t hurt me / Dentistess1908 March 23, T. E. Powers, “When Women Get Their Rights”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume LXXXVIII, number 83, San Francisco, Calif., page 14:
- Synonyms
- dentistress