squaretoes

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

square +‎ toes

Noun[edit]

squaretoes (plural squaretoes)

  1. (dated, derogatory or humorous) A stuffy or precise person.
    • 1882, Walter Besant, All Sorts and Conditions of Men:
      Josephus is a Squaretoes. I hate a man who won't drink.
    • 1846, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Men of capital, page 43:
      In these days, it is so seldom that a squaretoes like that obtains the advantage over one of us!

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