Fingernailful

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Enough to be stored under one's fingernail. rare

    "He hurried up the back stairs with the hot water, scooping up a fingernailful of frost off the window in the back hall where there wasn't any register."

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"He hurried up the back stairs with the hot water, scooping up a fingernailful of frost off the window in the back hall where there wasn't any register."

Etymology

From fingernail + -ful.

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