nail scissors


noun(usually used with a plural verb)
  1. small scissors with short curved blades for trimming the fingernails or toenails.

Origin of nail scissors

1
First recorded in 1850–55

Words Nearby nail scissors

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How to use nail scissors in a sentence

  • The nail file and nail scissors must be used as often as possible.

    The Complete Bachelor | Walter Germain
  • She took a nail scissors, clipped out the 'My God' and showed the rest of the letter all over school.

    This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A touch of the hairbrush was necessary, and for his hands the file of the nail-scissors.

    Mammon and Co. | E. F. Benson
  • Lacking this, she trundled home with all speed, and began cutting out roses with swift and certain strokes of the nail-scissors.

    Miss Mapp | Edward Frederic Benson
  • Then I took scissors, short-nail scissors, and I cut its throat with three slits, quite gently.