Dentist

Definitions

1. A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
2. Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.
   Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling

Equivalents

Examples

“It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind⟳ a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last⟳ idea it suggested.”

“Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use⟳ of one's reason⟳”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.”

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