shoehorn

Alternative forms

 * shoe-horn

Noun

 * 1) A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
 * 2)  Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
 * 3)  Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
 * 1)  Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: dabançəkən, dabangeydirən, dabankeş, pirəskən
 * Belarusian: ражо́к
 * Bulgarian: обу́валка
 * Catalan: calçador
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鞋拔子, 鞋拔
 * Hokkien: 鞋拔, 鞋拔仔
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, schoenaantrekker, schoentrekker, schoenhoorn
 * Esperanto: ŝukorno
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: skóhorn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: calzador, calzadeiro
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כף נעליים
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: skóhorn, skójárn
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ladar bróige
 * Italian:, calzatoio, corno da scarpa, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kashubian: łëżka do bótów
 * Korean: 구둣주걱
 * Ladin: ciauzadoia
 * Latvian: apavu lāpstiņa
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Schongläffel
 * Macedonian: лажица
 * Manx: eairk braagey
 * Nepali: बगलिस
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skohorn, skojern
 * Nynorsk: skohorn, skoskei
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوینوز
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: încălțător de pantofi
 * Russian: ло́жка для о́буви,
 * Scottish Gaelic: spàin-bhròg
 * Serbo-Croatian: žlica za cipele, žlica za obuvanje
 * Sicilian: quasaturi, causaturi
 * Silesian: sebuwacz
 * Slovak: obuvák, lyžica na obúvanie
 * Slovene: obuvalna žlica
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wobuwak
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kalsador, sapin sa paa
 * Tajik: пошнакаш
 * Thai: ที่ช้อนรองเท้า
 * Turkish: ayakkabı çekeceği
 * Ukrainian: ріжо́к
 * Vietnamese: muỗng giày, đón gót
 * Welsh:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To use a shoehorn.
 * 2)  To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
 * I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.
 * His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule.
 * 1) * 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, Italian politics: Who will be Italy’s next prime minister?
 * A member of Mr Monti’s government admitted that, barring a hung parliament, it was impossible for the moment to see how Mr Monti could be shoehorned into politics after next spring.
 * 1)  To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.
 * People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 用鞋拔子
 * Dutch: een schoenlepel gebruiken
 * Finnish: käyttää kenkälusikkaa
 * French:
 * German: ein Schuhlöffel benutzen
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: calçar com calçadeira
 * Russian: испо́льзовать рожо́к
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , , klämma in


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian:, bepasszíroz, , , , , beerőszakol
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , , meter con calzador