Toe-rag

Quick meaning: Toe-rag is a noun meaning Alternative form of toerag (“A worthless or despicable person, a tramp or vagrant”).

Meaning

Alternative form of toerag (“A worthless or despicable person, a tramp or vagrant”).

More Meanings

1. (archaic) A cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.

Example Sentences

Steady old Väinämöinen / yonder crept with no shoes on / without toe-rags he tiptoed […].

One of his feet had been bleeding, I could see from his ‘toe-rag,’ which stuck out on one side.

“I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.

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”.

Word Forms

• toe-rags

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