# Square toes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-toes/62139>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-toes/62139 "2001-04-16T06:15:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Wraith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bcef8e/32.png) [@Wraith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wraith)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-toes/62139/1 "2001-04-16T06:15:29Z")

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Does anyone here know, in the context of Death or God, any reference involving square toes? It came up in a book my friend is reading, and he wants to try to figure out its meaning. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-toes/62139/2 "2001-04-18T01:31:51Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB. A lot of times, Death is personified in literature as having square toes. I don’t know why. “Square-toed” used to mean kind of uptight and overly-orderly, but I don’t know if that has anything to do with Death. If you search on Google for **“square toes” death** you’ll get a lot of hits.