1) Agnail 2) Cuticle problem 3) Cuticle woe 4) Cutis 5) Digital annoyance 6) Digital problem 7) Exclusively Saxon word 8) Exclusively Anglo word 9) Finger woe 10) Fingertip annoyance 11) Fingertip nuisance 12) Skin 13) Tegument 14) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 15) Word of purely Anglo origin 1) Agnail 
A hangnail or agnail (also known as a stepmother`s blessing) is a small, torn piece of skin next to a fingernail or toenail. ...
• (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.
(hang´nāl) a shred of cuticle at one side of a nail; it is prevented by gently pushing the cuticle instead of cutting it, and is treated by clipping off the shred of skin and applying antiseptic to prevent infection.
Hang'nail` (-nāl`) noun [ A corruption of agnail .] A small piece or sliver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of a finger nail. Holloway. 
Type: Term Pronunciation: hang′nāl Definitions: 1. A loose triangular tag of skin attached proximally in the medial or lateral nail fold.
Hangnail is London Cockney rhyming slang for a slow, dawdling person (snail).
[n] - a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail
agnail noun a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected