square-toed

Questions about square-toed

What does square-toed mean?

square-toed means "exaggeratedly proper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in square-toed?

square-toed has 4 syllables: squa-re--to-ed. The stress falls on "re-".

What is another word for square-toed?

Close synonyms include priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is square-toed a common word?

square-toed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.