fingernailful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Enough to be stored under one's fingernail.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From fingernail + -ful.