dentistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentistresses
Etymology: From dentist + -ress.
Senses: examples: text: A Boston dentistress is so pretty that “she could coax a man’s tooth out by just putting her hand under his chin and asking for it.”
ref: 1883 February 14, “Pleasantries”, in Watertown Republican, volume XXIII, number 18, Watertown, Wis., column 5:
text: MRS. A. B. STOCKING, DENTISTRESS, HAS returned, and will resume her business between 21st and 22nd, on Postoffice street.
ref: 1884 February 24, “Professional—Medical”, in The Galveston Daily News, volume XLII, number 339, Galveston, Tex., column 5:
text: And if it happens to be one of the up-to-the-minute woman dentists attending the State Dental society convention in Fort Worth, wifey will don her coat and hat and accompany hubby to the dentist’s office, where she will wait for her spouse while the dainty dentistress probes in his facial maw with tweezers and forceps.[…]The advent of women into the dentist profession has heralded a new day for the fair sex, and who can say but that in the coming years men may flock to the dentistress’ office at even the slightest sign of a toothache instead of waiting until their jaw is swollen the size of an egg.
ref: 1923 April 18, “Women Active at Dental Meet: Several Feminine Artists Run Men Close for Honors in Attending Clinics”, in Fort Worth Record, volume XXVII, number 171, Fort Worth, Tex., page five:
text: NEW “DENTISTRESS” ARRIVES[…]Meanwhile the proud father, well-known Hayward dentist, is laying plans for an important feminine addition to the dental profession when his daughter grows a little older.
ref: 1928 October 9, Hayward Semi-Weekly Review, thirty-seventh year, number 70, Hayward, Calif., column 5:
text: TUESDAY at 10 a. m. Mr. Oliver Whidden was no sooner in the chair than the dentistress synchronously began dental and verbal operations.[…]“I got that dimple from sleeping with my face on a collar button,” coldly explained the dentistress.
ref: 1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love in the cavity of a bad tooth”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, seventeenth year, number 5286, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page six, columns 3–4:
text: The dentistress who, unwomanned by her victim’s feeble cries and the ashen pallor of his contorted visage, abruptly burst into tears, scampered from the surgery and locked herself in the attic, would very soon be drummed out of Wimpbeck Street by the Amalgamated Society of Dentists and (Pneumatic) Drillers. “Nor is that all. … What if the tender passion (if I may coin a phrase) should come stealing shyly in, to mar the dentistress’s aim and suffuse her damask cheek with a coy blush whenever she inserts a gimlet in Somebody’s ailing fang?[…]”
ref: 1935, National Dental Hospital Gazette, page 99:
text: Supercilious typists give me the horrors; so do those hags who in French theatres show you to your stall; caretakers of ducal mansions; manicurists; female Post Office clerks; she-announcers; wine waitresses (ugh!); fashion writers; editresses; doctoresses; dentistresses; lion-tameresses.
ref: 1938, James Agate, Bad Manners, London: John Miles, page 120:
glosses: A female dentist.
Synonyms: dentistess