fingernaily

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adjective

of, related to, or having the color of fingernails

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Meanings

adjectivefingernaily (comparative more fingernaily, superlative most fingernaily)

comparative more fingernaily · superlative most fingernaily

  1. informalrareof, related to, or having the color of fingernails

    "Without polish on our fingernails are the same colour" "as the background of the Paula Green issue of Poetry NZ," "not the greyed down claret of her eyes and mouth" "but the fingernaily grey-pink of her ears."

    2000, Anna Jackson, The Long Road to Teatime: Poems by Anna Jackson

Origin

From fingernail + -y.

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APA

fingernaily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fingernaily

MLA

“fingernaily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fingernaily. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fingernaily,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fingernaily.

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