great toe
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English *gret to (attested as plural gret toon). Compare Old English mycle tā (“big toe”, literally “mickle toe”).
Noun edit
great toe (plural great toes)
- (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..."