onychophagia

Oct. 13th, 2006 07:12 am
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onychophagia - 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.
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