little toe nail

plural little toe nails

1. alternativeAlternative form of little toenail.

   The other day I woke up and found my right big toe asking my left little toe nail, “Why do you suppose this guy never washes his feet?”

   1927 October 31, Karl K. Kitchen (The Evening World), quotee, “Froth”, in Dean Hoffman, editor, The Patriot, volume 88, number 260, Harrisburg, Pa.: The Patriot Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 7

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   When my little chickens are hatched, I cut the right little toe nail off, then the next year I let both of them stay on, and sell off all my hens with the little toes not cut off, and in that way I can tell the age of every hen I have.

   1901 May 24, Mrs. G. A. Gibbons (Journal of Agriculture), “Poultry and Bees: How to Make Chickens Pay”, in Edwards’ Fruit Grower & Farmer, volume XI, number 2, Missoula, Minn., →OCLC, page [7], column 1

   The average liability of each underwriter is under £50—but some of the risk-holders have small worries. For example—the man responsible for one forty-first part of fourth-fifths parts of £250 of the legs will keep a sharp eye on the left little toe nail as Miss [Cora] Goffin clambers over the stage rocks in her perilous ascent to the genie’s cave as Aladdin in the Golders Green Hippodrome pantomime.

   1936 December 6, “Panto. Star Insures Her Legs for £50,000”, in Sunday Dispatch, 136th year, number 7,049, London, →OCLC, page 18, columns 5–6