five-tooth'd

Updated: May 12, 2025

These use again all possible indeavours to recommend them here or there to a sweetheart, and make their own houses serve as an Exchange for this Negotiation; where they appear as precise at their hours, as a Merchant doth at Change-time. But what delight they have, in being curried with this sort of five-tooth'd Comb, the neighbours can judge by the miserable songs they sing.

A. Marsh - The Ten Pleasures of Marriage : and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple