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adv
According to the rules of an old drinking game in which the drinker upturned the empty cup and had to drink more if the remaining droplets spilled beyond the edge of his fingernail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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adv
To the last drop, to the bottom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Excellent wine that one would wish to drink to the last drop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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History
Pseudo-Latinism from super- + naculum, nagulum, Latinized form of German Nagel, intended to mean “upon the nail”, after the German phrase auf den Nagel (trinken).
