callus
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈkæləs/
:
callo
- After months of playing guitar, he developed a tough callus on his fingertips.
- callus on the palm
- callus on the hand
- get a callus
Oh my God, There's not a callus insight.
- Oh my God, There's not a callus insight.
- Why are you hitting them hard or do you have like incredible calluses on your fingers or what?
- But you start to develop harder calluses on your feet.
- I lost the callus on my pen supporting finger years ago.
Examples
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Humped my leg so much I got a callus on my shinbone.
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"You write by hand, I see," she said, gently turning his hand as it lay against hers and rubbing the tip of a finger over the small hillock of callus on the first joint of his middle finger.
Fiction book (1997) -
Eventually, a callus just forms.
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Get some callus on those hands of yours.
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You just have to build up a callus.
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I lost the callus on my pen supporting finger years ago.
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The middle finger of your left hand is indented with a callus, the trademark of a writer.
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The hand was bones, pink fingernails, and those pads of callus that guitar players get.
Fiction book (1999) -
When you first kissed my hand backstage, I felt the callus on your palm and thought, "This man's got the hands of a trapeze artist."
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There is a callus in my right palm at the base of my middle finger, and as it rides over my expanded belly, it gives streaks of chills up my back.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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9.6
A hard thick area of skin on the hand or foot from repeated rubbing
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Callus comes from an old Latin word callus meaning 'hard skin'. It is the same root as the word callous, meaning 'not caring', and this 'hard' idea helps you remember a callus is thick, tough skin from rubbing or pressure.