toe-rag

noun

A cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.

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Meanings

nountoe-rag (plural toe-rags)

plural toe-rags

  1. archaicA cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.

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

    1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLIV
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    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

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

    1891, Rolf Boldrewood, A Sydney-side Saxon, Macmillan and Co., page 157
  2. alternativeAlternative form of toerag (“A worthless or despicable person, a tramp or vagrant”).

    “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.

    1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213

Translations

Finnish jalkarätti
  • jalkarättirag worn in place of a sock
Russian портянка
  • портянка (portjanka)rag worn in place of a sock
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