unguical
English
editEtymology
editLatin unguis (“a nail or claw”).
Adjective
editunguical (not comparable)
- ungual
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- : [he] ... picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with satisfaction, threw away the lacerated unguical fragment.
References
edit- “unguical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.