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little nail en · NOUN
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Synonym of little fingernail.
As for nail piercing...well I have my little nail pierced all the time. I have a very small tool, like a hand drill, that does the hole for me. I don't recommend it on real nails though...as they can split easy.
1998 December 27, MsAmanda_@yahoo.com, “MsAmanda's 'Delurk'”, in uk.people.bdsm (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2025:There was a brief shower of blue sparks; Harrow snatched her hand back, amazed and furious. The fingers had withered into puckered twigs; her little nail had fallen off entirely.
2019 September 10, Tamsyn Muir, chapter 20, in Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb; 1), New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, published 2020, →ISBN, act 3:wfc 25 Scraping from right little nail
1978, S. H. Burges, “Sexual offences”, in S. H. Burges, J. E. Hilton, editors, The New Police Surgeon: A Practical Guide to Clinical Forensic Medicine, London: Hutchinson Benham, →ISBN, page 278:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, nail.
It’s not the end of civilization, either. It’s just another little nail in the coffin of democracy around the world.
2008 May 7, Thomas L[oren] Friedman, “The Democratic Recession”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2013:
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little fingernail