"fingernailful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fingernail + -ful.",
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      "form": "fingernailfuls",
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          "ref": "1952, Meredith Willson, Who did what to Fedalia?, page 27:",
          "text": "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.",
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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:",
          "text": "He said, “A bag of heroin is about two little fingernailsful.[…]”",
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        {
          "ref": "1974, Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 167:",
          "text": "Clara gave me salts and bath oil and I continued examining the day in fingernailfuls.",
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        {
          "ref": "1987, William Diehl, Thai horse, page 307:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1988 December 29, Sandra Duveau, “Sneaking foods at holiday buffets”, in The Press-Tribune, page B-5:",
          "text": "In the past, I would have eaten nine full-to-the-brim plates of her scrumptious savories — but just fingernailfuls this time.",
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          "ref": "2011, Stella Duffy, Singling Out The Couples:",
          "text": "Timing in the offered fingernailful of cocaine, well cut and loose dropped into the hollow between my collarbones.",
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        "Enough to be stored under one's fingernail."
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        "(rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail."
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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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          "ref": "1974, Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 167:",
          "text": "Clara gave me salts and bath oil and I continued examining the day in fingernailfuls.",
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          "ref": "1987, William Diehl, Thai horse, page 307:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(rare) Enough to be stored under one's fingernail."
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