ˈfinger-ˈnail
One of the nails of the fingers. to one's finger nails: completely, thoroughly.
| a 1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 281 Þat te blod wrang ut at tine finger neiles. 1842 Tennyson E. Morris 22 He seem'd All-perfect, finish'd to the finger nail. 1884 ― Becket iii. i, He's as like the King as fingernail to fingernail. 1888 Graphic Summer No. 21/1, I was a theosophist to my finger-nails. |