hygienist

[ hahy-jee-nist, -jen-ist, hahy-jee-nist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

hygienist

/ ˈhaɪdʒiːɪst; ˈhaɪdʒiːnɪst /

First recorded in 1835–45; hygiene + -ist

Each, however, is better than steak smothered in onions or potatoes fried in lard; any hygienist will tell you that.

But Aunt Plessington had made him a Haigite, which is one of the fiercer kinds of hygienist, just in the nick of time.

No competent hygienist is deceived into mistaking this phenomenon for an indication of the end.

The following letter from a veteran hygienist refers to the family whose history I have been relating.

It realises the dream of some insane hygienist: it scrubs the sky.

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