Definitions for hangnail

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hangnail hang·nail

Spelling: [hang-neyl]

IPA: /ˈhæŋˌneɪl/

Hangnail is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in hangnail (aaghilnn).

Definitions for hangnail

noun

1. a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.

Origin of hangnail

1300-50; Middle English angenayle corn, Old English angnægl, equivalent to ang- (variant of enge narrow, painful; cognate with German eng, see anger) + nægl callus,

Examples for hangnail

But it did matter to me that I had to dine on this hangnail pared from a sheep.