Meaning of fingernailful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to be stored under one's fingernail.

rare

Examples

“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.”

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