onychophagia
Oct. 13th, 2006 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordonychophagia - n., the practice of biting one's nails.
From Greek onycho-, combinatory form of ónyx, nail + -phagia, eating. One hopes the paraskavedekatriaphobes among us don't do too much of it today.
---L.
From Greek onycho-, combinatory form of ónyx, nail + -phagia, eating. One hopes the paraskavedekatriaphobes among us don't do too much of it today.
---L.
