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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

make someone's toenails curl en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of make someone's toes curl.
    • A professor has written an academic analysis of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, finding that – despite containing “some of the worst writing I have ever seen and a plot that made my toenails curl”—the erotic novel “is less pornographic than it is a self-help book”. 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

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made someone's toenails curl Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made someone's toenails curl Tense=Past lexicographic
makes someone's toenails curl Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
making someone's toenails curl Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic