Friday's slang word of the day: bite (one's) nails

Today's slang word of the day is bite (one's) nails. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.

bite (one's) nails

verb

• to be nervous or afraid.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  
  Citation from "Sins of the Past", Terriers (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 11 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: afraid, scared.

  Last edited on Nov 28 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 28 2010.  (As of March 8 2013, definitions are no longer editable.)

Enjoy!

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary

P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)