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nail-polished

nail-polished adjective: wearing nail polish.

Adjective

nail-polished (not comparable)

  1. Wearing nail polish.
    • Let the swain of our times undertake the chin fringe that Grandpa wore when he courted Grandma and his lipsticked, nail-polished, dieting and bepowdered fraulein would give him his choice of barbershop, the sideshow and the air.1937 July 16, “Whiskers”, in Binghamton Press, volume 59, number 81, page 6
    • Meanwhile, lip-rouged and nail-polished girls, some attired in abbreviated shorts, sent gasoline sales rocketing upward 50 per cent at Oakland and Long Beach.1941 July 18, Joseph McDermott, “Girl Cab Drivers, Messengers Appear: Wartime Necessity May Force Use of Women, Oldsters in Young Men’s Jobs”, in The Bakersfield Californian, volume 53, number 302...

Forms of nail-polished

alternative formnailpolished

Origin of nail-polished

From nail polish + -ed.

Questions about nail-polished

What does nail-polished mean?
Nail-polished means wearing nail polish.
What part of speech is nail-polished?
Nail-polished is an adjective.

Words near nail-polished in the dictionary

  1. nail-making
  2. nail-patella syndrome
  3. nail-polish remover
  4. nail-polish removers
  5. nail-polish-remover
  6. nail-polished
  7. nail-tail wallabies
  8. nail-tail wallaby
  9. nail-tailed wallaby
  10. nail-trimmer
  11. nail-trimmers

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