| 单词 | hangnail |
| 释义 | hangnail (once / 203782 pages) n WORD FAMILY hangnail: hangnails USAGE EXAMPLESImmaturity uses every tummy ache, flu, headache, fallen arch, hangnail or breakup as an excuse to slip the knot of accountability. Seattle Times(Dec 12, 2016) In one poem, the line “Today I bit a thick hangnail” leads to “Who would have thought that cannibals would be so tender?” New York Times(Oct 25, 2016) Beached whales, porpoises caught in fishing nets, mermaids with hangnails— they’d call me to come underwater and help. Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse(2007) n a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected Syn|Hyper agnail cutis, skin, tegument a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch |
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