large toe

English

Noun

large toe (plural large toes)

1. Synonym of big toe.
   • 1979 February 14, Jane E[llen] Brody, “Personal Health”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 February 2018:

     The large toes are also painfully jammed into the end of the shoe, and the front of the foot is crammed into the narrow tip, producing hammertoes and claw toes.

   • 2000 June 16, Mike Downey, “Burned Reporter’s Bravery Is Story Worth Telling”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 September 2025:

     A litany of horrors followed. Most of the left arm, amputated. Middle finger of the right hand, large toe of the left foot, both amputated.

   • 2023 February 21, Cortney Moore, Nicole Pelletiere, “I lost my toe after a pedicure, now I’m ‘a walking PSA’”, in New York Post‎, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 February 2023:

     The pedicure began and the salon worker who was handling House’s feet had proceeded to remove an ingrown toenail on the large toe of House’s right foot, a practice that’s arguably done often at nail salons.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see large,‎ toe.
   • 2004 October 26, Ilan Stavans, “Love: ageless in its power”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 September 2025:

     The first time they meet, he delicately touches his prey, surveying the surface of her body, from her incipient pubic hair to her unnaturally large toes.

Derived terms

• large toenail