Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

great toe-nail

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables: great -toe--nail
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of great toenail.

Example Sentences

"RUN away, laſt night, from the ſubſcriber, […] an Iriſh ſervant man, […] it is ſuppoſed his proper name is John Woods; […] he […] has his great toe-nail lately broke off on the right foot; […]"
"He [William Penn] had scarcely got over the first mile (which he performed in six minutes and an half) when he struck his foot so violent a blow against a sharp-pointed stone, that his great toe-nail was entirely torn off, and the flesh otherwise dreadfully lacerated; […]"
"Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, the father of the parliamentary general, died of a mortification in his foot, in consequence of the unskilfulness of an operator cutting his great toe-nail."

Inflected Forms

great toe-nails (plural)

Questions

What does great toe-nail mean?: Alternative form of great toenail.

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