toe rag definition

[Angiepandy]

What exactly is meant when you call someone a 'toe rag'?

[dot.hawkes]

from a web definition site:
Etymology: 19c: originally meaning �beggar, from the rags wrapped around beggars feet and worn inside the shoes in place of socks.

[Bellringer]

My understanding was that it came from Toureg, an Arab.
Probably racist nowadays.

[Quizmonster]

The meaning of a piece of cotton wrapped around the feet in place of stockings predates the word's use as a name for beggars/tramps...presumably because such people were specifically noted for wearing them, as Dot says.
Sorry, B, but it has nothing to do with Saharan peoples!