toothachingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Overly in possession of an otherwise positive trait.
adv
Example Sentences
- "Sweeter still — almost toothachingly so — are chongos zamoranos, a curious confection invented in Zamora in which milk, sugar and spices are boiled for about five days then laid away in syrup."
- "While this last could be eliminated for my taste, the overall effect is not as toothachingly sweet as some of these cereals can get."
- "I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears."
- "These two truths coexisted in my mind without overlapping until I bit into a piece of crumb cake so texturally perfect (soft sliver of cake topped by a deep layer of grape-size crumbs), yet so toothachingly sweet that the only antidote was sucking on the lemon in my seltzer."
- "It's why McDonald's finally downsized its portions, why you can now bake a gluten-free version of the same Betty Crocker toothachingly sweet cake mix you enjoyed as a child."
- "A college teacher (that makes the heart sink to begin with), he has a literary reputation about which he is agreeably modest (toothachingly), and, since Seymour committed suicide in 1948, Buddy is, at forty, the eldest Glass child."
Etymology
From toothaching + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more toothachingly (comparative)
most toothachingly (superlative)