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Obsolete British insult: a toerag is a piece of cloth worn on the foot under the boot to substitute a sock, especially in winter, and by vagrants. Something that is squalid and disgusting; by extension, a bum, vagrant or tramp.

Preceded more obscene (and thereby effective) insults such as tosser or wanker. It has fallen into disuse also because it invokes an element of the old class system, snootishness and looking down your nose at the lower classes.
Leave them alone, Baz, they're just a bunch of toerags, they're not worth it
toerag by Zwentibold December 27, 2008
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A derogatory British insult made antique by more popular words (Wanker, etc); Used to describe one who is seen as worthless in Society.

The word 'toerag' is believed to come from a rag used to wash the feet with, making it very lowly thought of.
They were just a bunch of toerags anyway.
toerag by Mitch Incognito September 4, 2003
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More commanly used in the sixties and seventies on Britcoms before trms like plonker and wanker superseded it.
You dirty little toerag
toerag by titwanker April 11, 2003

Bullying toerag 

Severus Snape
Harry: Snape is such a bullying toerag to Neville and I!

likkle toerag 

A derogatory British insult made antique by more popular words; Used to describe one who is seen as worthless in Society (piss head)
Resh and Maz your both Likkle toerags
likkle toerag by Spaniard!! January 11, 2010
A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.
1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.
Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016
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Theragony by Sossburger June 29, 2018
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