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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 properplay

2. having a square toeplay

  Familiarity information: SQUARE-TOED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SQUARE-TOED (adjective)


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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