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fingernailsful

fingernailsful 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 fingernailsful

What is fingernailsful the plural of?
Fingernailsful is the plural of fingernailful.

Words near fingernailsful in the dictionary

  1. fingernailed
  2. fingernailful
  3. fingernailfuls
  4. fingernaillike
  5. fingernails
  6. fingernailsful
  7. fingernaily
  8. fingernet
  9. fingernet caddisflies
  10. fingernet caddisfly
  11. fingerpad

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