square´-toed´ness

square´-toed´ness
square-toed «SKWAIR TOHD», adjective.
1. having a broad, square toe: »

square-toed shoes.

2. Figurative. old-fashioned and homely, as in habits or ideas: »

We old people must retain some square-toed predilection for the fashions of our youth (Edmund Burke).

–square´-toed´ness, noun.

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