Definition of "toe-curling" [toe-curling]

• Causing feelings of acute embarrassment (adjective)
• Causing feelings of arousal or excitement (especially sexual) (adjective)

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• "For long stretches at a time, he seems entirely unaware that Amelia's right there by his side and dying to give him another one of those toe-curling kisses."
• "Such sustained claustrophobic darkness made "2666" a smothering reading experience, but a slimmer work such as "The Skating Rink" published in English in 2009, 20 years after appearing in Spanish, also set on the Costa Brava, can be eerily hypnotizing, with flashes of toe-curling horror."
• "Still, many worry that toe-curling predictions like those found in a new forecast by NOAA on the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will come back to bite us should they not pan out precisely as anticipated."