ring-fingernail
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "This was a gipsy queen—they are all queens—who had camped with her wagons down by the walnut spring, and she read fate “in the palm of the hand, one hair of the head, and a clipping of the ring-fingernail.”"
- "Lewis Tedesco, 40, of 40 Willow Street, Port Chester, a short-order chef at Finch’s Drug Store, Havemeyer Place, Greenwich, was taken to the Greenwich Hospital yesterday at 6:30 P. M. by police after he had part of his right ring-fingernail torn off when he was operating a slicing machine."
- "Penn (last name Jillette; he’s the taller, louder one with red polish on his left ring-fingernail) remembers what it was to be a kid back then, when the late movie on TV every Friday and Saturday nights was certain to be a monster flick."