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fingernail

noun as in claw

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Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.

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Although it is obsolete in this sense, the verb survives in Welsh English in the sense of to scratch, especially with claws or fingernails, along with the noun use, to scratch.

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"She said, 'I think he's just holding on by his fingernails'," Lulu recalls.

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Cardi B was cleared of assault by a Los Angeles jury after a security guard sued her for $24 million in a fingernail attack.

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