/hang"nayl'/ , n.
a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail. Cf. whitlow .
[ 1300-50; ME angenayle corn, OE angnaegl, equiv. to ang- (var. of enge narrow, painful; c. G eng, see ANGER) + naegl callus, NAIL; modern h- by assoc. with HANG ]