What does fingernailful mean?
Fingernailful means (rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail..
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.
He said, “A bag of heroin is about two little fingernailsful.[…]”
Clara gave me salts and bath oil and I continued examining the day in fingernailfuls.
He scraped up a fingernailful and, holding it to a nostril, slowly inhaled it. He waited for another minute or two for it to take effect, then he scraped up another fingernailful and put it in his mouth and tasted it.
In the past, I would have eaten nine full-to-the-brim plates of her scrumptious savories — but just fingernailfuls this time.
Timing in the offered fingernailful of cocaine, well cut and loose dropped into the hollow between my collarbones.
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Fingernailful means (rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail..
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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.
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