little toe
- noun
- /ˈlɪtəl toʊ/
- I've been wearing the same pair of socks for so long that the fabric of the sock has literally become one with the skin of my little toe.
- little toe side
- foot and the little toe
- big and little toe
Put that on, put my little toe back together and we're going to go to the beat.
- Put that on, put my little toe back together and we're going to go to the beat.
- However, they are horrifically painful, particularly here at the toe, the little toe.
- And then I see the toe go, the little toe just floating in the glunk.
- Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than every one of them combined.
- I was like, got a little toe poking out there because someone likes to bite their feet, don't they?
Examples
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Babies love to put those little toes in their mouths!
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Look at those little toes hanging out the bottom.
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People say we'll lose our little toe because we don't need it.
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Just then, a heavy book slid off a stack I was carrying and crushed my little toe.
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You know, I dropped a heavy box on my little toe and it really hurt.
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It's easy to forget about your little toe until you accidentally stub it.
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When I wear sandals, my little toe always seems to stick out.
Synonyms
One of the five small parts at the end of a foot that help you balance while walking
The smallest finger or toe, the little one on each hand and foot
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Morphology
The meaning 'the smallest and outermost toe' follows a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'little' (small) modifies 'toe' (digit), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the parts. This is a basic, non-idiomatic, cross-linguistically common pattern that a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand.
Etymology
Little toe is a simple name from its parts: little because it is the smallest, and toe because it is one of the toes at the edge of the foot. That's why little toe means 'the smallest and outermost toe', sometimes called the 'pinky toe'.