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| hangnail [ háng nayl ] (plural hangnails) |
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peeling skin on finger: a small piece of skin partly detached from the side or base of a fingernail
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| [Late 17th century. By folk etymology <agnail 'corn on the foot' < Old English angnægl< ang- (< Germanic, 'tight') + nail] |
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