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noun
a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.
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| —n | |
| a piece of skin torn away from, but still attached to, the base or side of a fingernail | |
| [C17: from Old English angnægl, from enge tight + nægl | |
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Hang-nail
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Word Origin & History
hangnail
1678, probably folk etymology from O.E. agnail "a corn on the foot," from PIE *angh- "tight, painfully constricted, painful."
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hangnail hang·nail (hāng'nāl')
n.
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.
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