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uña

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fingernail; toenail

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uña

feminine noun

1. fingernail, nail (de mano)

hacerse las uñas -> to do one's nails
comerse o morderse las uñas -> to bite one's nails
con uñas y dientes (figurative) -> doggedly; (agarrarse) fiercely (defender)
ser uña y carne (figurative) -> to be as thick as thieves

2. toenail (de pie)

3. claw (garra)

enseñar o sacar las uñas -> to get one's claws out

4. hoof (casco)

5. plectrum (para instrumento musical) (Mexican Spanish)

uña [oo’-nyah]

noun

1. Nail of the fingers and toes (de la mano, del pie). (f)

2. Hoof (pezuña) claw, or tolon of beasts; fang. (f)

3. Painted hook of instruments. (f)

4. Part of the trunk of a felled tree, which sticks to the root. (f)

5. Crust on sores or wounds. (f)

6. Excrescence or hard tumor on the eyelids. (f)

7. Dexterity in stealing or filching. (f)

8. Curved beak of a scorpion. (f)

Uña de la gran bestia -> elk’s hoove
Uñnas de cangrejo, crab’s claws. Hinca -> or meter la uña, to overcharge, to be sell at an exorbitant price
Mostrar las uñas -> to be inexorable
Mostrar la uña -> to show one’s teeth, to discover one’s foibles
Comerse las uñas -> to bite one’s nails
Uña encarnada -> ingrowing nail
Estar de uñas con uno -> to be at daggers drawn with somebody

uña

1 (Anatomía) [de la mano] nail; fingernail; [del pie] toenail; (Zoología) claw

comerse las uñas to bite one's nails; to get very impatient; (Latinoamérica) (ser pobre) to be really poor; hacerse las uñas to have one's nails done; do one's nails

tener las uñas afiladas to be light-fingered

caer en las uñas de algn

ser uña y carne to be inseparable

estar de uñas con algn to be at daggers drawn with sb

defender algo con uñas y dientes to defend sth tooth and nail

dejarse las uñas

se dejó las uñas en ese trabajo he wore his fingers to the bone at that job

enseñar las uñas to show one's claws

tener las uñas largas to be light-fingered

ser [largo] de uñas

mostrar o sacar las uñas to show one's claws

uña encarnada ingrowing toenail