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troche

[troh-kee] / ˈtroʊ ki /
NOUN
capsule
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NOUN
lozenge
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Josh’s testosterone troche: A manifesto against gambling manifestos.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014

Mike’s testosterone troche: In 1964, Packers halfback Paul Hornung had the worst kicking season of all time.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014

Local anesthesia is unnecessary as well as dangerous in children; and its application is likely to dislodge the foreign body unless used as a troche.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

Tab′loid, a small tablet containing a certain definite portion of some drug, a troche or lozenge.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

"A cold and frog-like place, this, for a lady's walk, Miss PENDRAGON," he said, hastily swallowing a bronchial troche to neutralize the damp air admitted in speaking.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various

After undergoing infusions at a clinic, he said, he transitioned during the pandemic to taking small lozenges called troches at home.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called slanlus or "heal-all;" of unguents loathsomely compounded, but at greatest length and with fullest rapture of his vile phlebotomy.

From Doom Castle by Neil Munro

The critics of the last century have disputed whether or not this has been misspelled in the original, and should read "trochies" or "troches."

From Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley

And she offered a beautiful little bonbonnière, saying, "Try these French paste troches, they are delicious."

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

She was in and out of her room on the instant, with a box of troches, one of which she held out to her father.

From The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas by Laura Lee Hope




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