"make someone's toenails curl" meaning in English

See make someone's toenails curl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: makes someone's toenails curl [present, singular, third-person], making someone's toenails curl [participle, present], made someone's toenails curl [participle, past], made someone's toenails curl [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> someone's toenails curl}} make someone's toenails curl (third-person singular simple present makes someone's toenails curl, present participle making someone's toenails curl, simple past and past participle made someone's toenails curl)
  1. Alternative form of make someone's toes curl. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: make someone's toes curl
    Sense id: en-make_someone's_toenails_curl-en-verb-c-SHsz-y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> someone's toenails curl"
      },
      "expansion": "make someone's toenails curl (third-person singular simple present makes someone's toenails curl, present participle making someone's toenails curl, simple past and past participle made someone's toenails curl)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "make someone's toes curl"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              179,
              200
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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”.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of make someone's toes curl."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_someone's_toenails_curl-en-verb-c-SHsz-y",
      "links": [
        [
          "make someone's toes curl",
          "make someone's toes curl#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make someone's toenails curl"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made someone's toenails curl",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> someone's toenails curl"
      },
      "expansion": "make someone's toenails curl (third-person singular simple present makes someone's toenails curl, present participle making someone's toenails curl, simple past and past participle made someone's toenails curl)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "make someone's toes curl"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              179,
              200
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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”.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of make someone's toes curl."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make someone's toes curl",
          "make someone's toes curl#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make someone's toenails curl"
}

Download raw JSONL data for make someone's toenails curl meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (7cef23e and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.