请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 square-toed
释义

square-toedadj.

Etymology: square adj. Compounds 1.
1.
a. Of shoes: Having broad square toes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with specific type of toe
picked1615
square-toe1706
square-toed1785
stub-toed1930
open-toe1938
peep-toe1939
peep-toed1953
chisel1961
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Square toes Square-toed shoes were anciently worn in common, and long retained by old men.
1803 Censor 1 Apr. 47 In a superfine coat with waistcoat, and..hessian boots, or square-toed shoes.
1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xi The priest had walked thither, as the dust on his square-toed shoes and black stockings would testify.
b. transferred in U.S. Nautical use. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > others
lachrymal1607
tauriform1721
diminished1726
tailed1767
acinose1796
aciniform1798
acinous1809
slab-sided1817
lip-like1836
mound-like1843
high-centred1847
square-toed1851
brush-shaped1880
mushroom1884
bolster-shaped1900
arrowhead1934
narrow-gutted1952
panhandled1960
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 76 You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know;—square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks.
1886 Forest & Stream 13 May 316/3 Even the regular ‘square-toed’ schooner, supposed to be original to San Francisco, flourishes up the James.
1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 711/1 Square-toed frigate,..local name given in Quincy, Mass., to the scow sloops engaged in the granite trade. (Obsolete.)
2. figurative. Old-fashioned, formal, precise.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated
moth-frettenOE
antiquate?a1425
antique?1532
rusty1549
moth-eaten1551
musty1575
worm-eatenc1575
overyear1584
out of date1589
old-fashioned1592
out of date1592
worm-eat1597
old-fashion1599
ancient1601
outdated1616
out-of-fashion1623
over-aged1623
superannuateda1634
thorough-old1639
overdateda1641
trunk-hosea1643
antiquitated1645
antiquated1654
out-of-fashioned1671
unmodern1731
of the old school1749
auld-farrant1750
old-fangled1764
fossila1770
fogram1772
passé1775
unmodernized1775
oxidated1791
moss-covered1792
square-toeda1797
old-fashionable1807
pigtail1817
behind the times1826
slow1827
fossilized1828
rococo1836
antiquish1838
old-timey1850
out of season1850
moss-grown1851
old style1858
antiqued1859
pigtaily1859
prehistoric1859
backdated1862
played1864
fossiled1866
bygone1869
mossy-backed1870
old-worldly1878
past-time1889
outmoded1896
dated1900
brontosaurian1909
antiquey1926
horse-and-buggy1926
vintage1928
Neolithic1934
time-warped1938
demoded1941
steam age1941
hairy1946
old school1946
rinky-dink1946
time warp1954
Palaeolithic1957
retardataire1958
throwback1968
wally1969
antwacky1975
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > seemly or proper > strictly proper
nicec1387
formal?1518
point-devicea1529
ceremonious1553
ceremonial1579
squarec1590
square-toeda1797
wiggy1817
nicey1859
uptight1969
a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 73 We old people must retain some square-toed predilection for the fashions of our youth.
1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 131 Square-toed and old fashioned as it may be, it certainly weeds the sense at once of all equivocation.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 127 There are two leading classes of London Bankers—the square-toed and the pointed.
1880 Morley in Daily News 26 Mar. 2/6 A system of square-toed humdrum.

Derivatives

square-toedness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness
staleness1552
surannation1656
superannuation1658
antiquation1659
fustinessa1661
antiquateness1664
antiquatedness1730
superannuity1781
innovelty1783
old-fashionedness1817
square-toedness1846
fossilism1861
obsolescence1887
old-timiness1887
frumpishness1889
old-fangledness1895
out-of-dateness1915
datedness1933
outdatedness1953
time warp1965
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > strict decorum
formc1405
galancie1581
ceremoniousness1583
punctilio1596
formality1599
ceremony1603
punctuality1618
punctillea1648
complementalness1657
formalness1684
punctiliousness1685
nicety1693
ceremonial1749
square-toedness1846
punctiliosity1859
uptightness1969
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 127 As regards this important distinction, however, neither square-toedness nor pointed-toedness is to be relied on.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1785
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 10:04:17