Agnail (Noun)
Meaning
A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- She winced in pain as the hangnail on her index finger caught on her sweater.
- The rough patch on her thumb was actually an agnail that had been irritating her for days.
- After gardening all day without gloves, she found a painful agnail had developed on her ring finger.
- If you keep biting that agnail on your middle finger, it's going to become seriously infected.
- The little girl cried when her mom tried to cut the long, aching agnail on her pinky finger.