Agnail Definition

ăgnāl
noun
A sore or swelling around a fingernail or toenail.
Webster's New World
A hangnail.
Webster's New World
A hangnail.
American Heritage Medicine
A painful sore or swelling around a fingernail or toenail.
American Heritage Medicine
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Agnail

Noun

Singular:
agnail
Plural:
agnails

Origin of Agnail

  • Middle English angnail corn from Old English angnægl ang- painful angh- in Indo-European roots nægl peg, nail nail

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English agnail, from Old English angnægl.

    From Wiktionary

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