shoehorn
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- noun
- /ˈʃuːhɔrn/
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- To make it easier to put on my new shoes, I used a shoehorn.
- need a shoehorn
- use a shoehorn
Examples
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On another shelf, arranged so precisely as to discourage touching, what looked like shoehorns.
Fiction book (1993) -
Go get a shoehorn.
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But I need a shoehorn -
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Do you take the shoehorns?
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- You don't happen to have a shoehorn?
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A shoehorn, Agnes.
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"Hold it," he said, pulling out the longest and smoothest shoehorn I'd ever seen, extending from elbow to fingertips.
Fiction book (2000) -
They were shoehorns.
Fiction book (1993) -
On the bedside table, there are several new prescription bottles, a shoehorn, keys, and a bill with the name and address of an oncologist in Palm Springs.
Fiction book (1994) -
My grandmother always recommended using a shoehorn to protect the shape of the shoe.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shoehorn is the name of a simple tool that was often made from an animal horn to 'help slide the heel into a shoe', so imagine a smooth curved horn guiding a tight foot into place.