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A hangnail is a tiny strip of skin that has come loose beside your , usually near the bottom corner, not a piece of the nail itself. It looks as if a bit of skin is hanging there, and it can sting or catch on things. People often pick at it, which usually makes it worse and can make the skin around the nail sore or a little red. It is an everyday body word, not medical or fancy; you say it at home when your finger hurts. Though actually, the name is a bit of a folk story: it looks like hang + nail, and that is how English speakers have long heard it, but the older word was closer to “painful nail.”
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組成Looks like hang + nail, and that is how people re-read it; the older English word was agnail, from Old English ang- (“tight, painful”) + næġl (“nail”).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hangnailnoun/ˈhæŋneɪl/
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A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
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A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。