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SQUARE TOES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does square toes mean?
• SQUARE TOES (noun)
The noun SQUARE TOES has 1 sense:
1. a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
Familiarity information: SQUARE TOES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
square; square toes
Hypernyms ("square toes" is a kind of...):
conservative; conservativist (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
Of course you observed the peculiarly square toes in the impressions, and that his own boots exactly corresponded to them.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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