Definition of Square toes

1. Noun. A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.

Exact synonyms: Square
Language type: Colloquialism
Generic synonyms: Conservative, Conservativist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Square Toes

square peg into a round hole
square pyramid
square pyramids
square rigged
square rod
square root
square roots
square sail
square sails
square scooter
square scooters
square shooter
square tab shingle
square tab shingles
square the circle
square toes (current term)
square up
square wave
square wave stimuli
square yard
square yards
squared
squared-toe
squared the circle
squaredness
squareflipper square flipper
squarefree
squarehead
squareheads
squarelike

Literary usage of Square toes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. To the Hebrews by George Wesley Buchanan (1910)
"BROTHER SQUARE-TOES IT was almost the end of their visit to the seaside. They had turned themselves out of doors while their trunks were being packed, ..."

2. The Musical World (1855)
"WE have elsewhere inserted a letter signed "square toes," which, from certain peculiarities, we are'disposed to lay to the charge of Dr. Gauntlett. ..."

3. The Kipling Reader for Upper Grades by Rudyard Kipling (1912)
"BROTHER SQUARE-TOES IT WAS almost the end of their visit to the seaside. They had turned themselves out of doors while their trunks were being packed, ..."

4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"square toes.—An offensive word for father. s 1 Finding old square toes in the study, Stern, gloomy, sulky, dark, and muddy. ..."

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