squaretoes
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]squaretoes (plural squaretoes)
- (dated, derogatory or humorous) A stuffy or precise person.
- 1882, Walter Besant, All Sorts and Conditions of Men:
- Josephus is a Squaretoes. I hate a man who won't drink.
- 1846, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Men of capital, page 43:
- In these days, it is so seldom that a squaretoes like that obtains the advantage over one of us!