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footnails

footnails is the plural of footnail.

Meaning of footnail

Noun

footnail (plural footnails)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of toenail.
    • The soles are more horny and discoloured than the palms, and the foot[-]nails, from walking bare, are often deficient or distorted.1859, Richard F. Burton, “The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, with Notices of the Lunar Mountains and the Sources of the White Nile; […]”, in Norton Shaw, editor, The Journal of the Royal...
    Synonyms:
    toenail

Questions about footnails

What is footnails the plural of?
Footnails is the plural of footnail.

Words near footnails in the dictionary

  1. footmeals
  2. footmen
  3. footmuff
  4. footmuffs
  5. footnail
  6. footnails
  7. footnote
  8. footnoted
  9. footnoter
  10. footnoters
  11. footnotes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footnails (page history and authors); footnail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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