hangnail
- n a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected
- It's like asking for pity for the millionaire's ulcers or having a symposium on the plantation owner's hangnail.
- Replete with hangnail character sketches and hangdog attitudes, Author Rawlings' revised Book of Job is a sententious smudge compared to her famed, finely drawn 1938 novel, The .
- It is entirely possible that Adlai is suffering from a hangnail or fallen arches, unknown to the public.