Adjective : an ingrowing nail. From Dictionary.com.
June 27, 2007 10:47 AM , ingrowing toenail said. From Wordnik.com. [Is Another Tory MP About to Jump Ship?] Reference
What you've got, Virge, is a bad case of ingrowing nerves. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
At last he died before his time -- killed off by an ingrowing rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
They do cure thousands of people of fear and of "ingrowing thoughts.". From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
If not bruises or streaky tan then ingrowing hairs or varicose veins. From Wordnik.com. [triangles] Reference
And son Patrick is back at work after having an ingrowing toenail removed. From Wordnik.com. [Flying High Again] Reference
Inflammation in ingrowing toe nail usually arises along the outer edge of the nail. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
Not just the clap, a cold as well, a sore throat, a bad stomach, an ingrowing toenail. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
A faulty mode of cutting the toe nails in a healthy foot may favor ingrowing toe nails. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
"Now," she demanded, "tell me all about it, or I'll simply die of ingrowing curiosity.". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
I'm going to see, but when I'm reasonably abstemious I'm not given to ingrowing nerves. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
"I recently bumped into a Basildon mother of three with an ingrowing toenail and that is why I love the NHS.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lib Dems find you don't need to spin when you're winning] Reference
He was suffering from mortification, which is a sort of ingrowing anger, and the more it sunk in, the angrier he got. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
No girl with "ingrowing dignity," as Amelia Boggs called it, could hope to be happy with her fellows at Lakeview Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
“I wonder if this is what they call an ingrowing toe – nail?” said Hirst, examining the big toe on his left foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage Out] Reference
Secondly, we find the duty to refrain from commenting on others 'appearance in a way that will start "ingrowing thoughts.". From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
There's always the chance that Broown getting hit by the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/badly bungled ingrowing toe nail op. From Wordnik.com. [Another Day Another Poll] Reference
The young men of Europe had visions of a broader world, one cleared of lies and hate and the poison of an ingrowing patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
+ Broon could still fall under the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/unfortunate complications from an ingrowing toe nail operation. From Wordnik.com. [Bookies Close Betting on Another Defection] Reference
On the contrary, those of the feet should be cut squarish in shape, with a hollowed-out centre, so as to prevent the nail from ingrowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
But you and your kind suffer from ingrowing vanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference
I have but recently recovered from an ingrowing toenail. From Wordnik.com. [Something New] Reference
'You're suffering from ingrowing sentimentality, Mr Birdsey. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
Don't cut around the corners as this can encourage ingrowing toenails. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
"Pug" Hanson went into political work to save himself from ingrowing patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [Tattlings of a Retired Politician] Reference
Toenails injured by too much trimming or by ingrowing may become infected with fungi. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Paine, if your ingrowing modesty won't stand the pressure you had better leave the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
Carl by no means catalogued all the details, but he did get the effect of ingrowing propriety. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
Foot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)] Reference
He had an ingrowing toe nail, which sometimes made him grouchy and sour, so he was dubbed Pickles. From Wordnik.com. [Bumper, The White Rabbit] Reference
"You bled me for two years, and yet you have the ingrowing gall to come and tell me you're broke.". From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress] Reference
The Tory leader's ambition, on current evidence, is to make Britain the ingrowing toenail of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It got ingrown several years ago ... and I have to really work on it to keep it from ingrowing again. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
You'll never know in this oversized, ingrowing, fenced-off, insulated metropolis till some one writes and tells you. From Wordnik.com. [At Good Old Siwash] Reference
It hurt him like a hidden, unmentioned ingrowing toe nail that cuts and bleeds and excruciates the fleet member it is meant to protect. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
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