squaretoes

English edit

squaretoes (plural squaretoes)

(dated, derogatory or humorous) A stuffy or precise person.
- 1882, Walter Besant, All Sorts and Conditions of Men:
  Josephus is a Squaretoes. I hate a man who won't drink.
- 1846, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Men of capital, page 43:
  In these days, it is so seldom that a squaretoes like that obtains the advantage over one of us!