nail biter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who habitually bites or chews their fingernails.
noun
A situation which causes anxiety, suspense, nervousness or discomfort.
Example Sentences
- "But Victor did not reveal any behavior disorder, did not pick his nose, did not suck his thumb, was not even a nail biter."
- "It was a real nail biter waiting for the test results."
- "And in a shockingly misogynistic ad, Republicans placed an image of O’Connor in a huddle of three supposedly nightmarish mascots of liberalism, all women: Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton. O’Connor absorbed all of this and still turned the race into a nail-biter."
- "Shabana Mahmood, in her role as chair of Labour's national executive committee, confirmed Burnham's victory on stage at the special party conference, conceding that it was “hardly a nail-biter”."