“square、toes”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

square-toes

释义

square-toes
[square a.]
1. A precise, formal, old-fashioned person; one having strict or narrow ideas of conduct. Usu. qualified by old, and with initial capital.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 164, I could hardly keep my gravity on this ludicrous occasion; but old Squaretoes was differently affected.1785G. A. Bellamy Apology (ed. 3) I. 195 He was sorry that old Square-toes was obliged..to go out of town immediately.1819‘Rabelais the Younger’ Abeillard & H. 219 Finding old Square-toes in the study Stern, gloomy, sulky, dark, and muddy.1857Hughes Tom Brown Pref. p. xvi, Giving the idea that Arnold turned out a set of young square-toes.1889Stevenson Master of Ballantrae 99 Even Square-Toes has a certain vivacity when his stake is imperilled.
2. Square-toed shoes.
1852Thackeray Esmond i. viii, The Doctor made a low bow..and walked off on his creaking square-toes after his patron.

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