toothachingly

副词 adv.

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. So as to cause toothache.
    — 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.
  2. Overly in possession of an otherwise positive trait.
    — 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.
  3. Painfully, irritatingly.
    — Have you ever wondered how it is possible for someone to drive a motorised vehicle so toothachingly, nerverenderingly slow?

词形变化

more toothachingly comparative most toothachingly superlative

词源

From toothaching + -ly.
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