Meaning of big toe-nail | Babel Free

Examples

“[H]e [John Hooper] had also one of his big toe-nails crushed off, and it had been replaced by a very thick, clumsy one.”

“Now a woman isn’t usually so particular about her husband’s feet as to notice whether the little toe-nail or the big toe-nail is gone, or whether the lapping of the toes includes and covers a deformity or not, […]”

“A 39-year-old reader wants to bare her feet and wear flip-flops on her holiday to Greece, but is self-conscious about her thickened and yellow big toe-nails. […] Usually the first toes to be infected are the big toes, because they are the ones most likely to bang against the inside of the toe cap.”

“He [Maurice Tate] missed most of one Test, a match England narrowly lost, after his big toe-nail was ripped off as he stamped down on the hard ground in his action, leaving his toe infected, but he was back playing the next Test a week later.”

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