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fingernailfuls

fingernailfuls is the plural of fingernailful.

Meaning of fingernailful

Noun

fingernailful (plural fingernailfuls or fingernailsful)

  1. (rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail.
    • He hurried up the back stairs with the hot water, scooping up a fingernailful of frost off the window in the back hall where there wasn't any register.1952, Meredith Willson, Who did what to Fedalia?, page 27

Questions about fingernailfuls

What is fingernailfuls the plural of?
Fingernailfuls is the plural of fingernailful.

Words near fingernailfuls in the dictionary

  1. fingernail clams
  2. fingernail moon
  3. fingernail moons
  4. fingernailed
  5. fingernailful
  6. fingernailfuls
  7. fingernaillike
  8. fingernails
  9. fingernailsful
  10. fingernaily
  11. fingernet

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