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Definition: Square-toed |
Square-toedAdjective1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts". 2. Having a square toe; "square-toed shoes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "square-toed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Square-toedSynonyms: priggish (adj), prim (adj), prissy (adj), prudish (adj), puritanical (adj), squared-toe (adj), straightlaced (adj), straitlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Listen, you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed spy. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Square-toed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Square-toed" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "square-toed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me majë katrore, i modës së vjetër (dowdy, old fashioned, oldfangled). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | старомоден (antiquated, archaic, corny, dowdy, fossil, fusty, hunker, moldy, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old time, out of date, outmoded, passe, primitive, quaint, traditional), пуритански (austere, priggish, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, round-headed, straitlaced). (various references) | |
Chinese | 正方形"脚尖踢. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szögletes orrú. (various references) | |
Korean | 사각 발끝으로 밟". (various references) | |
Manx | lhean-ordaagagh, baare-lhean. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | are-toedsquay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, swanky), presumido (assuming, cock-a-hoop, cockalorum, fop, immodest, overweening, presumed, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, sidy, snooty, swanky), pedante (bumbling, cloddish, donnish, pedant, pedantic, prig, priggish, uncouth, wiseacre), fora de moda (archaic, behindhand, obsolete, old, old-fangled, old-fashioned, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passe, superannuated, unfashionable), cheio de si mesmo (priggish). (various references) | |
Russian | с тупыми носками, педантичный (donnish, pedantic, precise, priggish, punctilious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | staromodan (frumpish, fusty, moss-grown, old fashioned, old hat, outmoded, passe, quaint), s četvrtastim vrhom. (various references) | |
Spanish | de punta cuadrada. (various references) | |
Turkish | tutucu (conservative, dyed in the wool, fanatical, fuddy-duddy, hidebound, puritan, puritanical, sectarian, stick in the mud, strait laced, stuffy, unprogressive, uptight, wowser), geri kafalı (behindhand, bigoted, hidebound, narrow minded, provincial), eski kafalı (conservative, fogeyish, fogyish, fossil, fuddy-duddy, fusty, grubby, narrow minded, old fashioned, old fogeyish, old fogyish, superannuated). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | старомодний (ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, corny, frumpish, old fashioned, oldfangled, out of date, out of fashion, outmoded, primitive, victorian, vintage), тупоносий, педантичний (donnish, dryasdust, meticulous, notional, pedantic, pedantical, pernickety, persnickety, precise, priggish, prim, punctilious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-o-q-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: equators, outdares, outreads, quaestor, readouts, roqueted. | |
-3 letters: aroused, austere, dearest, derates, detours, dourest, equated, equates, equator, oersted, outdare, outread, quaeres, quartes, quartos, quatres, quested, quester, questor, quoters, readout, redates, redouts, request, roasted, roquets, roseate, rousted, sauteed, sedater, squared, teredos, torqued, torques, torsade. | |
-4 letters: adores, aretes, arouse, autoed, daters, derate, derats, desert, deters, detour. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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