Crossword-Solution: HANGNAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hangnail | n. | A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “HANGNAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cuticle problem | 1 answer |
| Cuticle woe | 1 answer |
| Digital problem | 1 answer |
| Finger trouble. | 1 answer |
| Finger woe | 1 answer |
| Fingertip annoyance | 1 answer |
| Fingertip woe | 1 answer |
| Target for clippers | 1 answer |
| AGNAIL | 2 answers |
| Manicurist's target | 4 answers |
| Manicurist's concern | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HANGNAIL (5)
One does not put one's hand in the fire to burn off a hangnail; and, though health is delightful, neither of you were out of order enough to make a rash experiment.
Gas is cheaper." He reached for his glass, at which Clyde's eye fell upon his missing fingers, and the young clubman exploded: "Well! If that's the kind of pill you are, maybe you didn't lose your mit in the Boer War either." Emerson answered for the adventurer: "Hardly! He got blood-poisoning from a hangnail." Clyde began to laugh uncontrollably.
Poisonous matter has been fatally absorbed through the breaking of the cuticle by a hangnail, or a simple scratch.
But when it dwindled into a book called "Hangnail's Questions," and manners declined into primness, and domestic training lost its vigour, then artificiality laid hold of it and lethargy followed, and there was no more education for "young ladies." In a characteristically English way it was individual effort which came to change the face of things, and honour is due to the pioneers who went first, facing opposition and believing in the possibilities of better things.
This fold protects the delicate growing part, or root, of the nail; and if it is shoved back too vigorously, the root may become exposed, or even inflamed and infected, and cause one of those extremely irritating little sores known as a "hangnail." DISEASES AND DISTURBANCES OF THE SKIN Their Chief Causes.
Quotes with HANGNAIL (3)
I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay." I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox. And there's one more - that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is cut, my eyes are blue, It might be the instamatic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke…
If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.
Trying to drown me woman?"'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?''God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1967–2020).