big toe-nail

big toe-nail (plural big toe-nails)

1. Alternative form of big toenail.
   • 1831 August 2, “Suspected Murder Near Bolton, and Singular Exhumation”, in Kent & Essex Mercury, number 458, London: […] Matthias Gibbon, […], →OCLC, page [3], column 5:

     [H]e [John Hooper] had also one of his big toe-nails crushed off, and it had been replaced by a very thick, clumsy one.

   • 1876 March 25, “About a Body. Complaints from the Friends of Captain [Thomas A.] Hamlin. […]”, in Brooklyn Daily Union, volume XIII, number 166, Brooklyn, N.Y., →OCLC, page [3], column 1:

     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, […]

   • 2008 August 8, Thomas Stuttaford, “Holiday fungus hits the nails on the foot”, in The Times‎^[1], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 September 2025:

     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.

   • 2010 October 19, Stephen Bates, “Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 November 2020:

     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.