toe-rag

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toe-rag (plural toe-rags)

  1. (archaic) A cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock. A footwrap.
    • 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:
      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”.
    • 1891, Rolf Boldrewood, A Sydney-side Saxon, Macmillan and Co., page 157:
      One of his feet had been bleeding, I could see from his ‘toe-rag,’ which stuck out on one side.
    • 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLIV:
      Steady old Väinämöinen / yonder crept with no shoes on / without toe-rags he tiptoed [] .
  2. Alternative spelling of toerag (A worthless or despicable person, a tramp or vagrant)
    • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213:
      “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.

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