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fingernaily

fingernaily adjective: of, related to, or having the color of fingernails.

Adjective

fingernaily (comparative more fingernaily, superlative most fingernaily)

  1. (informal, rare) of, related to, or having the color of fingernails
    • "Without polish on our fingernails are the same colour"
      "as the background of the Paula Green issue of Poetry NZ,"
      "not the greyed down claret of her eyes and mouth"
      "but the fingernaily grey-pink of her ears."2000, Anna Jackson, The Long Road to Teatime: Poems by Anna Jackson

Forms of fingernaily

comparativemore fingernaily
superlativemost fingernaily

Origin of fingernaily

From fingernail + -y.

Questions about fingernaily

What does fingernaily mean?
Fingernaily means of, related to, or having the color of fingernails.
What part of speech is fingernaily?
Fingernaily is an adjective.

Words near fingernaily in the dictionary

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

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