little toe nail

See also: little toe-nail and little toenail

English

Noun

little toe nail (plural little toe nails)

  1. Alternative form of little toenail.
    • 1901 May 24, Mrs. G. A. Gibbons (Journal of Agriculture), “Poultry and Bees: How to Make Chickens Pay”, in Edwards’ Fruit Grower & Farmer, volume XI, number 2, Missoula, Minn., →OCLC, page [7], column 1:
      When my little chickens are hatched, I cut the right little toe nail off, then the next year I let both of them stay on, and sell off all my hens with the little toes not cut off, and in that way I can tell the age of every hen I have.
    • 1927 October 31, Karl K. Kitchen (The Evening World), quotee, “Froth”, in Dean Hoffman, editor, The Patriot, volume 88, number 260, Harrisburg, Pa.: The Patriot Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 7:
      The other day I woke up and found my right big toe asking my left little toe nail, “Why do you suppose this guy never washes his feet?”
    • 1936 December 6, “Panto. Star Insures Her Legs for £50,000”, in Sunday Dispatch, 136th year, number 7,049, London, →OCLC, page 18, columns 5–6:
      The average liability of each underwriter is under £50—but some of the risk-holders have small worries. For example—the man responsible for one forty-first part of fourth-fifths parts of £250 of the legs will keep a sharp eye on the left little toe nail as Miss [Cora] Goffin clambers over the stage rocks in her perilous ascent to the genie’s cave as Aladdin in the Golders Green Hippodrome pantomime.
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