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Big Toe

Definition: Big Toe

Big Toe

Noun

1. The first largest innermost toe.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Big Toe

Synonyms: great toe (n), hallux (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Big toe

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The big toe is the largest toe on the foot. It is known in medical terminology, or when referring to nonhuman primates, as the hallux.

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."

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Crosswords: Big Toe

English words defined with "big toe": buniongout, gouty arthritistabi, tabisurarthritis. (references)

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Modern Usage: Big Toe

DomainUsage

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.

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Use in Literature: Big Toe

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Big Toe

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

big toe

61

big toe numb

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Big Toe

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

   

Portuguese

  

pododáctilo, dedo grande do pé, dedão do pé. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

большой палец ноги. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

òrdag (thumb). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

palac (inch, thumb), nožni palac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hallux, hallus, dedo pulgar del pie, dedo gordo del pie (great toe). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stortå. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ayak başparmağı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Big Toe

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pollex. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Big Toe

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Big Toe


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 67      54 6F 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01010100 01101111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#103 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0067      0054 006F 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3675732548171

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INDEX

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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