Usually means: Anxious habit of biting nails.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word nail biting:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. nail biting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nail-biting: Merriam-Webster
  3. nail-biting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nail-biting, nail-biting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nail-biting: Vocabulary.com
  6. nail-biting: Wordnik
  7. nail-biting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nail-biting, nail biting: Wiktionary
  9. nail-biting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nail-biting: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nail-biting, nail biting: Dictionary.com
  12. Nail biting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nail-biting: Rhymezone
  14. nail-biting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. nail-biting: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nail-biting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nail-biting, nail biting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. nail biting: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  4. nail-biting, nail biting, biting, nail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nail-biting: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nail biting)

▸ noun:  the habit of biting one's fingernails.

Similar:
nail biter, nailcare, nail bed, nicotinism, belonephobia, nitpicking, nosing, natting, nasophilia, nettling, more...

Opposite:
nail care, nail grooming, manicure



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Similar:
nail biter, nailcare, nail bed, nicotinism, belonephobia, nitpicking, nosing, natting, nasophilia, nettling, more...

Opposite:
nail care, nail grooming, manicure



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