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单词 fingernail biter
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fingernail biter
fingernail biter n. (a) a person who bites his or her nails, esp. habitually (cf. nail-biter n. 1); (b) a suspenseful event, situation, etc.; spec. a close sporting contest (= nail-biter n. 2).
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1898 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 18 June 14/2 In almost every case where a parent..has been a finger-nail-biter,..the children have..fallen into the same practice.
1958 Washington Post 6 Apr. e7/3 Its plot, once under way, is a fingernail biter.
1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 11 Apr. h9 The record-setting Flutie making every game a fourth-quarter fingernail-biter.
2010 T. Reber Love Unscripted (2013) 86 I noticed he was a fingernail biter.
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