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Definition of Square toes
1. Noun. A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Square Toes
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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