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Definition: Big Toe |
Big ToeNoun1. The first largest innermost toe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Big ToeSynonyms: great toe (n), hallux (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The human big toe has some limited grasping ability. Chimpanzees, who lack opposable thumbs, have an opposable hallux.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Big toe."
Crosswords: Big Toe |
| English words defined with "big toe": bunion ♦ gout, gouty arthritis ♦ tabi, tabis ♦ urarthritis. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | President? My big toe would make a better President! (Sweet Smell of Success; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Clifford Odets) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Casy waggled his big toe up and his second toe down, and he smiled quietly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
big toe | 61 |
big toe numb | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "big toe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إبهام قدم للرجل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | палец на крака. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | palec (cog, in, inch, thumb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | storetaa, storetå, hallux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hallux (great toe), grote teen (great toe), dikke teen (great toe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | isovarvas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gros orteil, grand orteil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | große Zehe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγάλο δάκτυλο του ποδιού, πρώτο δάκτυλο του ποδιού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אליון (thumb), א'ו"ל (thumb), ב"ן "ר'ל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagy lábujj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alluce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ordaag vooar, ordaag choshey, ordaag chass (great toe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igbay oetay pododáctilo, dedo grande do pé, dedão do pé. (various references) большой палец ноги. (various references) òrdag (thumb). (various references) palac (inch, thumb), nožni palac. (various references) hallux, hallus, dedo pulgar del pie, dedo gordo del pie (great toe). (various references) stortå. (various references) ayak başparmağı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pollex. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-o-t" | |
-1 letter: begot, bigot, bogie, boite. | |
-2 letters: bite, gibe, obit. | |
-3 letters: beg, bet, big, bio, bit, bog, bot, ego, get, gib, gie, git, gob, got, obe, obi, teg, tie, toe, tog. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, bo, et, go, it, oe, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-o-t" | |
+1 letter: bigoted. | |
+2 letters: boggiest, misbegot, obligate. | |
+3 letters: besotting, bestowing, bigotedly, bigotries, bonneting, bothering, cogitable, entombing, globbiest, objecting, obligated, obligates, obtesting, obverting, rebooting, thighbone. | |
+4 letters: abiogenist, abnegation, bayoneting, beclothing, beknotting, beshouting, besoothing, bestrowing, bethorning, betokening, betrothing, bevomiting, bigmouthed, biogenetic, bolstering, brothering, deorbiting, footbridge, geobotanic, iceboating, lobstering, negotiable, nonbetting, obligately, obsoleting, outbeaming, outbegging, overbright, rebottling, thighbones. | |
+5 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, amblygonite, bayonetting, besmoothing, bootlegging, browbeating, elaborating, footbridges, freebooting, geobotanies, geobotanist, gibbosities, iceboatings, interrobang, lobsterings, misbegotten, outbleating, outblessing, outbreeding, outdebating, overbeating, overbetting, rebuttoning, reobjecting, reobtaining, reprobating, tribologies, unbonneting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 67      54 6F 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01010100 01101111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g   T o e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067      0054 006F 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675732548171 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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