Hangnail

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  • noun. A small piece of dead skin at the side or the base of a fingernail that is partly detached from the rest of the skin.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small separate piece of hard, partly detached epidermis at the root or side of a nail. Hangnails often persistently renew themselves after they are cut.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small piece or sliver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of a finger nail.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
  • noun. A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected
    • Word Usage
    "You will never hear me say * Damn, this hangnail is killing me* ever again."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cutis  skin  tegument  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    'wow  dynamiter  filch  granduncle  helpin  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    agnail  
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