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Big toe   /bɪg toʊ/   Listen
Big toe

noun
1.
The first largest innermost toe.  Synonyms: great toe, hallux.






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"Big toe" Quotes from Famous Books



... your tongue, you young fool!" blazed out the old man. "But don't ask me to hold my hand! I'm goin' after you tooth and big toe-nail! If Ranch Number Ten ain't mine in all partic'lars before you're a year older I want ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory

... sampit, in his left a shield, and his parang was very large. He wore a chavat made of fibre, and in his ear-lobes were inserted large wooden disks; his skin was rather light and showed no tatuing; the feet were unusually broad, the big toe turned inward, and he ran on his toes, the heels not ...
— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz

... while the front still has four. This is not the only advance. Already the middle toe of the original set of five is becoming emphasized. The weight is thrown more forcibly upon it, as with the human foot it is upon the inner or big toe. The middle toe is growing larger and larger, and the nail upon it is spreading around it and is growing firmer. The creature, too, is standing more nearly upon his toes; his legs are getting longer; he stands higher ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker

... a lecturer in the "University Extension Course," was printed in the Philadelphia Bulletin: "Evidence that early man climbed trees with their feet lies in the way we wear the heels of our shoes,—more at the outside. A baby can wiggle its big toe without wiggling its other toes,—an indication that it once used its big toe in climbing trees. We often dream of falling. Those who fell out of the trees some 50,000 years ago and were killed, of course, had no descendants (?) So those who fell and were ...
— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams

... People with holes in their socks and young men wearing boots three sizes too small are the legitimate prey of the slipper-man, since the average human would yield up almost his last piastre rather than promenade around in St. Sophia with his big toe protruding through his foot-gear like a mud-turtle's head, or run the risk of having to be hauled bare-footed to his hotel in a hack, from the impossibility of putting his boots on again. Devout ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... what she intended to do—for she had only used the wish once and could not be certain how powerful the Magic Belt might be—Dorothy closed her right eye and wiggled her left big toe and drew a long breath and wished with all her might. The next moment the room began to revolve again, as slowly as before, and by degrees they all slid to the side wall and down the wall to the floor—all but Scraps, who was so astonished that she still ...
— The Lost Princess of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... the light-hearted lawyer; "I trod on a stick in that pond where I got the Brasenia and things, and my big toe's a ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... fair was held at Bhandar to which all the Satnamis went and drank the water in which the guru had dipped his big toe. Each man gave him not less than a rupee and sometimes as much as fifty rupees. But the fair is no longer held and now the Satnamis only give the guru a cocoanut when he goes on tour. The Satnamis also have a fair in ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell

... shoulders were covered with a tippet falling to the elbows, and fastened on the chest by means of a brooch. Their feet were protected by sandals, kept in place by ropes or ribbons, passing between the big toe and the next, and between the third and fourth, then brought up so as to encircle the ankles. They were tied in front, forming a bow on the instep. Some wore leggings, others garters and anklets made of feathers, generally yellow; sometimes, ...
— Vestiges of the Mayas • Augustus Le Plongeon

... through a rain of tears; "and it hurts, Polly;" and she began to wiggle the big toe, where around the nail was settling a ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney

... up the Little Dipper and lay back on the sand, his hands clasped under his head. "I can see the North Star," he announced, contentedly, pointing toward it with his big toe. "Anyone might get lost ...
— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather



Words linked to "Big toe" :   toe, great toe, pes, human foot, foot



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