square-toed

An old-fashioned adjective describing someone who is excessively conventional, formal, or conservative in behavior or manners.

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes Adjektiv für eine Person, die übermäßig konservativ, förmlich oder regelkonform in ihrem Verhalten und ihren Umgangsformen ist; auch für altmodische, spießige oder pedantische Haltungen.

1. Exaggeratedly proper C1 informal

   Having or showing very strict, conventional, or old-fashioned manners and attitudes.

   • His square-toed views on dating made him unpopular at parties.
   • She gave a square-toed speech about the importance of tradition.
   • The old professor was known for his square-toed approach to literature.

   🇩🇪Übertrieben korrekt

   Synonyme: conventionalformalfuddy-duddyold-fashionedpriggishprimproperprudishpuritanicalrigidstaidstodgystrait-lacedstrictstuffyuptightvictorian

   Antonyme: hipmoderntrendy

2. Having a square toe B2 formal

   Describes a shoe or boot that has a toe box shaped like a square.

   • He wore a pair of square-toed leather boots.
   • Square-toed shoes were fashionable in the 1990s.
   • The cobbler specialized in making square-toed footwear.

   🇩🇪Mit eckiger Schuhspitze

• more square-toed comparative form
• most square-toed superlative form