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  • adjective Having fingernails (often of a specified kind).

Etymologies

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fingernail +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • The next think you know, these kids show up as these black fingernailed zombies, giving adults lethal hugs that scorch them inside and out, and the only way to stop them is to cut off their hands.

    Jan. 21th, 2009 - Issue 0.037 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • On the other hand, I'm having fun imagining Murdoch spinning out his last days shup in a room, long-haired, long-fingernailed and draped in Kleenex, while Wendy's family stage endless puppetshows of content within the walled garden of NewsCorp.

    Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing 2009

  • The next think you know, these kids show up as these black fingernailed zombies, giving adults lethal hugs that scorch them inside and out, and the only way to stop them is to cut off their hands.

    Issue 0.037 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • It also imbued me with fresh appreciation for America's sloppy, weedy, fertile grassroots -- our national strategic reserves of democratic whimsy and dirty-fingernailed enterprise, which keep our culture alive.

    Zach Dundas: 'The Renegade Sportsman': 6 Of The Weirdest Sports (PHOTOS, POLL) Zach Dundas 2010

  • During a break from filming inside the Desert Inn casino, the cast and crew of "Rush Hour 2" burst out singing "Happy Birthday" to Zhang, who plays a high-kicking, crimson-fingernailed villain.

    Crouching Tiger Shooting Star 2007

  • Finch is the newest member of an unofficial club of media-adored athletes whose images sell newspapers, from Kournikova to the long-fingernailed track star in the one-legged tights, Florence Griffith-Joyner, who died in 1998.

    USATODAY.com - Softball's Jennie Finch ready to make her pitch 2004

  • Put your (black-fingernailed) hands up in the air, and wave 'em like ya just don't care.

    Boing Boing: November 3, 2002 - November 9, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Listen and see what I mean; Shine talks about why fluffy-haired long-fingernailed "lesbians" in regular porn just don't seem to reflect how girls are having sex with each other (really?), amazing behind the scenes tales of fisting and female ejaculation on the set of her cult hit porn film

    open source sex 2010

  • Her distinct personal style, a mix of flapper, dirty-fingernailed urchin, and broken ballerina, reflects her sense of displacement.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Last summer, Her Gear, which claims to be the UK's only shop catering exclusively for female cyclists - "an alternative to the greasy fingernailed, Masonic, very macho environment you find in a traditional bike shop," according to owner Stephen Peters - opened in Kensington, west London.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2009

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