little nail

English

Noun

little nail (plural little nails)

  1. Synonym of little fingernail.
    • 1978, S. H. Burges, “Sexual offences”, in S. H. Burges, J. E. Hilton, editors, The New Police Surgeon: A Practical Guide to Clinical Forensic Medicine, London: Hutchinson Benham, →ISBN, page 278:
      wfc 25 Scraping from right little nail
    • 1998 December 27, MsAmanda_@yahoo.com, “MsAmanda's 'Delurk'”, in uk.people.bdsm‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 September 2025:
      As for nail piercing...well I have my little nail pierced all the time. I have a very small tool, like a hand drill, that does the hole for me. I don't recommend it on real nails though...as they can split easy.
    • 2019 September 10, Tamsyn Muir, chapter 20, in Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb; 1), New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, published 2020, →ISBN, act 3:
      There was a brief shower of blue sparks; Harrow snatched her hand back, amazed and furious. The fingers had withered into puckered twigs; her little nail had fallen off entirely.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little,‎ nail.
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