toe-rag
toe-rag noun: a cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap. Also the alternative form of toerag.
Noun
toe-rag (plural toe-rags)
- A cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.
- Stockings being unknown, some luxurious men wrapped round their feet a piece of old shirting, called, in language more expressive than elegant, a “toe-rag”.1864, “an Ex-Military Officer” (J. F. Mortlock), Experiences of a Convict, Transported in 1843 for Twenty-One Years: An Autobiographical Memoir, part II, Richard Barrett (printer), page 80
- One of his feet had been bleeding, I could see from his ‘toe-rag,’ which stuck out on one side.1891, Rolf Boldrewood, A Sydney-side Saxon, Macmillan and Co., page 157
Also used as
toe-rag is also the alternative form of toerag.
Forms of toe-rag
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Questions about toe-rag
- What does toe-rag mean?
- Toe-rag means a cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.
- What part of speech is toe-rag?
- Toe-rag is a noun.
- What is the plural of toe-rag?
- The plural of toe-rag is toe-rags.
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