Word of the Day: Quick
Ladies, I am sure that more than once you have broken a fingernail. Have you ever broken a nail and exposed the quick of your finger?
I’m using quick as a noun here, and it means the delicate pink skin under your fingernail.
If you expose this part of your body, it hurts like all get out.
I’ve hit my finger with a hammer and jammed my finger more than once so severely that I lost my entire fingernail and completely exposed the quick.
WOW! It, really, really hurts and I mean H-U-R-T-S very much!
The next time you break off a fingernail, cut your fingernail too short or for some reason lose an entire fingernail, the delicate pink skin that is exposed is called the quick and it HURTS! A lot!