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SQUARE-TOED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does square-toed mean?
• SQUARE-TOED (adjective)
The adjective SQUARE-TOED has 2 senses:
1. exaggeratedly proper
2. having a square toe
Familiarity information: SQUARE-TOED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exaggeratedly proper
Synonyms:
priggish; prim; prissy; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straight-laced; straightlaced; strait-laced; straitlaced; tight-laced; victorian
Context example:
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
Similar:
proper (marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a square toe
Synonyms:
square-toed; squared-toe
Context example:
square-toed shoes
Similar:
toed (having a toe or toes of a specified kind; often used in combination)
Context examples
Just now it's the fashion to be hideous, to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait jacket, orange gloves, and clumping square-toed boots.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When I tell you that his shoes were square-toed instead of being pointed like Blessington’s, and were quite an inch and a third longer than the doctor’s, you will acknowledge that there can be no doubt as to his individuality.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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