hangnail

Meaning of hangnail

noun
  1. A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
  2. 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.

Information about hangnail

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of hangnail is: hangnails.
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Hyphenation of hangnail

hang-nail

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • hangnail is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hangnail synonyms

Meaning agnail:

agnail

Translation of hangnail

Anagrams of hangnail

Langhian

Words that rhyme with hangnail

nail, hobnail, thumbnail, horsenail, renail, tenail, toenail, treenail, trenail, agnail, nagnail, toshnail, divinail, formnail, unnail, EcoNail, doornail, fingernail, governail, seasnail, snail

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