manicurist

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,967 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: manicurists

A manicurist is somebody who shapes and paints fingernails for a living. Visit the manicurist.

The word is from Latin for hand and care, which is exactly the job. A manicurist sees more hands in a week than most doctors see in a year.

Definitions of manicurist

1nounmanicuristSomebody who shapes and paints fingernails for a living.B2+
“The manicurist had worked in the same salon for twenty years.”

manicurist is a worker.

Where it comes from

French
manucure
English
manicure
English, today
manicurist

From manicure + -ist. manicure Borrowed from French manucure. From French manucure, coming from Latin manus, hand, and cura, care.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

manicurist in the wild

Janice Miner was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Jan Miner
Instead, however, she went to a "beauty-culture school" and learned to be a manicurist.
We Are Looking at You, Agnes
Cobb was the first known American manicurist and introduced modern nail manicuring to Britain and the United States.
Mary E. Cobb
A newspaper reporter keeps losing and regaining his job due to a manicurist he is persuaded to marry.
The Public Menace

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the manucure family

manicure manicurist

manicurist — used about once every 5,406 pages · #9,967 · point at the bar for the others

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