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# hangnail

«hangnail» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small torn piece of skin hanging loose at the side or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hangnail, hangnails)

### meaning for a pupil

A small torn piece of skin hanging loose at the side or bottom of a fingernail, which can hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In health and hygiene lessons: don't bite or pull a hangnail — snip it carefully with clean clippers, wash your hands and keep the skin moisturised, or it can get infected. Hangnails come from dry skin and nail biting.

### examples

- I've got a sore hangnail on my thumb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#x1)
- Don't pull your hangnail; you'll make it bleed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#x2)
- Mum cut off my hangnail with nail clippers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#x3)
- Biting your nails can cause hangnails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#x4)
- Hand cream helps stop hangnails in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#x5)
- A hangnail can get red and infected if you pick at it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/#x6)

### note

Countable. Trap: despite the name, a hangnail is skin, not part of the nail.

### In the corpora

- [A hangnail is clipped with clean clippers, because pulling it tears the skin and can cause infection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hangnail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangnail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.