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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toenail
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
paint
▪ I am vain enough to want to look good, but not to style my hair and paint my toenails.
▪ Jennifer would be on the sofa painting her toenails different colors to see which one she liked best.
▪ She laughed and let him paint her toenails too, something that would not have occurred to her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A huge female foot hove into view, and then a vast hand appeared and clipped away at its toenails.
▪ But it is, in fact, a form of protein called keratin, similar in composition to our finger and toenails.
▪ He was fifteen minutes humming a hymn tune as he did his toenails.
▪ Her appendix, womb and a kidney were removed along with in-growing toenails and haemorrhoids.
▪ I showered carefully, starting at my hair and ending between my toes and under my toenails.
▪ Jennifer would be on the sofa painting her toenails different colors to see which one she liked best.
▪ She laughed and let him paint her toenails too, something that would not have occurred to her.
▪ You could hear his toenails scraping along the sidewalk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
toenail

also toe-nail, 1690s, from toe (n.) + nail (n.).

Wiktionary
toenail

n. The thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe. vb. (context transitive English) To fasten two pieces of lumber together by applying nails or screws into both boards at an angle.

WordNet
toenail
  1. n. the nail at the end of a toe

  2. v. drive obliquely; "toe a nail" [syn: toe]

Usage examples of "toenail".

Weequahic once stepped into the footbath between the locker room and the pool and actually came out at the other end without his toenails.

Cassie stood, carefully stepping around the footbath so as not to smudge her ruby toenails.

That on occasion she doubtless has the same messy problems of blackheads, ingrowing toenails and sweaty armpits as the rest of us.

She was wearing black-patent-leather open-toed shoes with four-inch heels, which revealed that her toenails, as well as fingernails, were painted the exact same shade as her lips.

No hair, no fingernails or toenails, no marks on its body except the dense flint.

Wilkinson told him that her nephew, who had ingrowing toenails, had always wanted to be a teacher.

Frank opened his mouth and then decided not to ask what ingrowing toenails had to do with it, and I smothered my laughter in ice-cream and blackcurrant jam.

I am a Giant, I am a Titan, I am a Hercules of Liberty, I am Prometheus, I am the Jess Willard of the New Cerebral Pugilism, I am the Modern Cave Man, I am the Comrade of the Cosmic Urge, I have kicked off the Boots of Superstition, and I run wild along the Milky Way without ingrowing toenails, I am I!

He finds it hard to believe that such mundane concerns as ingrowing toenails and constipation ever sully her thoughts.

One day Brauksel, like Weininger, will be dead, but his hair, toenails, and fingernails will survive him for a time -- just as this handbook on the construction of effective scarecrows will be read long after the writer has gone out of existence.

He kicked her once while he was at it, and scratched the back of her calf with the rough edge of a toenail, and she huddled away from him, scooched as far over toward the edge of the bed as she could get.

And in the boardinghouse on Cadillac Boulevard, Tessie Zizmo paints her toenails and hears the sound of a clarinet.

Every third step or so, her long toenails, curved tidily over the soles, snatched up a bit of moss and threw it into her path.

Having brains the size of toenails, none responded except in more panic.

They are identical in the pink-and-white checked gingham bikinis, the greenand-white striped towels are identical and the pearly polish on their fingernails and toenails is in the same shade, only the slap wrap bracelets differentiate them - blue for Emily, red for Jane.