onychophagy

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WOM World / Nokia have given me for a short testing period ….. .only to realize after 2 weeks of onychophagy uncertainty that the landlord (who lives downstaires in the basement) already received and opened the parcel a week ago - assuming it's the phone he ordered some time ago.

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  1. The habit of biting the fingernails. Habits of various kinds, such as onycophagie or fingernail biting, excessive smoking, dypsomania, nervous twitchings, etc. Pop. Sci. Mo., Nov., 1905, p. 607.

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  • WOM World / Nokia have given me for a short testing period ….. .only to realize after 2 weeks of onychophagy uncertainty that the landlord (who lives downstaires in the basement) already received and opened the parcel a week ago - assuming it's the phone he ordered some time ago. —  Kikuyumoja
 

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  1. New Latin onycophagia, from Greek ὄνυξ (ὀνυχ-). nail, + -φαγια, from φαγεῖν, eat.
 

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