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toe-rags

toe-rags is the plural of toe-rag.

Meaning of toe-rag

Noun

toe-rag (plural toe-rags)

  1. (archaic) 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

Questions about toe-rags

What is toe-rags the plural of?
Toe-rags is the plural of toe-rag.

Words near toe-rags in the dictionary

  1. toe-pokes
  2. toe-poking
  3. toe-rag
  4. toe-ragger
  5. toe-raggers
  6. toe-rags
  7. toe-tag
  8. toe-tagged
  9. toe-tagging
  10. toe-tags
  11. toe-tap

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