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little toe-nail

little toe-nail is the alternative form of little toenail.

Meaning of little toenail

Noun

little toenail (plural little toenails)

  1. The nail of the little toe.
    • E. W. Hays, Box 636, hit a chair with his foot, knocking his right little toenail loose.1966 June 15, “6 Emergencies Get Treatment”, in Corsicana Daily Sun, volume 70, number 290, Corsicana, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 4
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, toenail.
    • With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it. Didn’t he deserve a really big horse?2000 April 6, Jane Smiley, “Jack Russell”, in Horse Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 13

Forms of little toe-nail

plurallittle toe-nails

Questions about little toe-nail

What is little toe-nail the alternative form of?
Little toe-nail is the alternative form of little toenail.

Words near little toe-nail in the dictionary

  1. little tinamous
  2. Little Tobago
  3. little toe
  4. little toe nail
  5. little toe nails
  6. little toe-nail
  7. little toe-nails
  8. little toenail
  9. little toenails
  10. little toes
  11. Little Tokyo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: little toe-nail (page history and authors); little toenail (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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