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make someone's toes curl en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To cause a strong emotional reaction, especially an unpleasant one.
    • For every good thing in the week, there was something to make one's toes curl. 1983 October, Listener and BBC Television Review, page 27:
    • He gave me a last lingering kiss that made my toes curl and left me panting. 2021, Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

Forms

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