Pronounced: ECK-spee-ate, verb
Notes: My guess was close to the correct meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word exungulate means “to pare nails, claws, etc”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
Great word! How much more fun to say I was exungulating this morning instead of the rather prosaic I trimmed my nails this morning. Word-savvy people probably recognize “ungulate” part of our word. In fact, our word came from the Latin word exungulare (to lose the hoof), from ex- (out) and ungula (claw; nail; hoof; talon).
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 