hangnail

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

hangnails

1.
A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
Đồng nghĩa: agnail, backfriend
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.

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Đồng nghĩa

agnailbackfriend

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hangnailed

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro A corruption of agnail, by folk-etymological reanalysis as hang + nail; from Middle English agnail, from Old English angnæġl, from ang- + næġl. The first part is from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus (narrow, tight), while the second is from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-.