square-toed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
    puritanical; prissy; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; tight-laced; victorian; prudish; prim; straightlaced; priggish.
    • my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  2. adjective satellite having a square toe
    squared-toe.
    • square-toed shoes

WordNet


Square"-toed` noun
Definitions
  1. Having the toe square.
    Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.

Webster 1913