• Squaretoes

    Origin

    en + square + toes

    Full definition of squaretoes

    Noun

    squaretoes

    (plural squaretoes)
    1. (dated, derogatory or humorous) A stuffy or precise person.
      • Sir Walter BesantJosephus 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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