"fingernailful" meaning in All languages combined

See fingernailful on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: fingernailfuls [plural], fingernailsful [plural]
Etymology: From fingernail + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fingernail|ful|pos=noun}} fingernail + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|+|fingernailsful}} fingernailful (plural fingernailfuls or fingernailsful)
  1. (rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail. Tags: rare

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1952, Meredith Willson, Who did what to Fedalia?, page 27:",
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          "ref": "1971 March 4, Pam Goldstein, “Students: Marijuana ‘Prevalent’ at Eastern”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXXXIV, number 63, Hartford, Conn., page 50:",
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          "text": "Timing in the offered fingernailful of cocaine, well cut and loose dropped into the hollow between my collarbones.",
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