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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The habit of biting the fingernails.

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  1. n. the habit of biting one's nails

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  • “Director Alain-Raymond van Abbe of the institute for pathological onychophagy IPO announced this on Wednesday.”

    First Treatment Centre For Nail Biters | Impact Lab

  • “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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  • jmjarmstrong JM reckons onychophagy is much nicer as a word than as an act. Mar 25, 2010

  • peritus @trivet

    "onychodaky"? The Greek δακέειν means "to bite" as φᾰγεῖν (the source of -phagy) means "to eat". Feb 9, 2008

  • reesetee Can't help you there. I don't think the word is that specific. But I promise to do some research on the subject.

    Not firsthand, though. :-) May 18, 2007

  • trivet *yeech* - but what if a nail-biter doesn't eat the nails, only gnaws them off and spits them out? May 18, 2007

  • reesetee The habit of nail biting. May 18, 2007

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