great toe

English

Etymology

From Middle English *gret to (attested as plural gret toon). Compare Old English mycle tā (“big toe”, literally “mickle toe”).

Noun

great toe (plural great toes)

  1. (dated, anatomy) big toe
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXVII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 279:
      "[I]t is not only thus with this thumb, but also with my other thumb and with both my great toes..."
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