SQUARE-TOED

PRONUNCIATION: (skwair-tohd)

MEANING: adjective: Old-fashioned or conservative.

ETYMOLOGY: From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square) + toe, from Old English ta (toe). Earliest documented use: 1785.
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'S "QUARTET" - O.E.D. - according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's a diminutive quart

STUART-TOED - feet pointing inward, a little-known hereditary deformity affecting members of the royal Stuart family

SQUAB RE-TOED - sewed the digits back on the feet of a young pigeon