what is an Enail ?

[Hen Hanna]

what is an Enail?

Simply put, an ENail is a device typically used for vaporizing prescription cannabis extracts. This is most commonly referred to as dabbing or dabs.


------ I don't understand the etymology of the above device's name.

Apparently there are other kinds of enails. HH

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:53:11 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

The "e" in "enails" is short for "electrinoc". I've found two possible
origins of this use of "nail" in the Urban Dictionary.:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nails&page=2

9
nail
A syringe as in illicit drug use.


10
nail
cigarette, abbreviation of "Coffin Nail"

I think the second one is the most likely. The idea is that smoking
cigarettes can cause death. According to the OED "coffin nail" meaning a
cigarette has been in use since that 19th century:

1888 Texas Siftings 18 Feb. 8/1 A youth..puffed at an
ill-smelling coffin nail.

That derives comes from the phrase:

"a nail in the coffin" and variants: something that hastens or
contributes to the end of the person or thing referred to. Cf. sense
7e, and coffin-nail n. (b) at coffin n. Compounds 2.
With a final nail (in the coffin) cf. the last straw s.v. straw n.1
8.

1789...
1821 P. Egan Life in London 183 A glass of spirits is termed,
among the wet ones, adding ‘another nail to the coffin’.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 22:43:30 +0000, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

> The "e" in "enails" is short for "electrinoc". I've found two possible

"electronic".

[Hen Hanna]

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 2:43:31 PM UTC-8, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:53:11 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna <...>

I guess enail is not yet in OED. or other std dictionaries.
it's not in https://en.wiktionary.org


Thank you. That's deep.
I thought [cancer stick] was clever,
but that is far more clever / ironic.


I didn't realize ppl knew cigarettes were bad for you that early.

I thought...
In the 1930s-1950s, most ppl thought smoking was sexy and cool,
and few ppl linked it to cancer or other ill-effects.



>>> "Reznor said in 1994 that he coined the name "Nine Inch Nails" because it "abbreviated easily", rather than for "any literal meaning". Other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus' crucifixion with nine-inch spikes, or Freddy Krueger's nine-inch fingernails.". --Wikipedia.

[Hen Hanna]

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 2:43:31 PM UTC-8, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:53:11 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna <...>

> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >what is an Enail?
> >
> >Simply put, an ENail is a device typically used for vaporizing prescription cannabis extracts. This is most commonly referred to as dabbing or dabs.
> >
> >
> > ------ I don't understand the etymology of the above device's name.
> >
> > Apparently there are other kinds of enails. HH
>
> The "e" in "enails" is short for "electrinoc". I've found two possible
> origins of this use of "nail" in the Urban Dictionary.:
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nails&page=2
>
> 9
> nail
> A syringe as in illicit drug use.
>
>
> 10
> nail
> cigarette, abbreviation of "Coffin Nail"
>
> I think the second one is the most likely. The idea is that smoking
> cigarettes can cause death. According to the OED "coffin nail" meaning a
> cigarette has been in use since that 19th century:
>
> 1888 Texas Siftings 18 Feb. 8/1 A youth..puffed at an
> ill-smelling coffin nail.
>

Nails Cigarettes == A fictional brand of unfiltered "hard hitting" cigarettes used in numerous View Askewniverse movies that are directed and written by Kevin Smith.

"Hey Silent Bob, let me get busts on that Nails Cigarettes."



" giz a fuckin nail der fella "

der = [to the] [to that] ? ok, "Dear Fella"


giz ==== British Geordie slang meaning "give me".
"Giz a go" "Giz a drink" "Giz a ciggy"



I still don't know what a [Hot Nails] shop offers.
I'd rather not find out, so that
I can have more interesting torture methods / images.



I first thought an Enail is so-called because
a metal surface (the size of a finger nail)
is heated by Electricity.

HH

[Ian Jackson]

In message <4b91d439-292b-4957...@googlegroups.com>, Hen
Hanna <henh...@gmail.com> writes

>
>
>giz ==== British Geordie slang meaning "give me".
> "Giz a go" "Giz a drink" "Giz a ciggy"

FWIW.....

"Giz" is a contraction of "gie iz", where "gie" is "give" and "iz" is a
singular version of "us".

When it comes to "a ciggy", older Geordie would be "a tab".
>

>

--
Ian

[Hen Hanna]

On Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 3:20:37 PM UTC-8, Ian Jackson wrote:
> In message <4b91d439-292b-4957...@googlegroups.com>, Hen

> Hanna <......> writes

>
>
> >
> >
> >giz ==== British Geordie slang meaning "give me".
> > "Giz a go" "Giz a drink" "Giz a ciggy"
>
> FWIW.....
>
> "Giz" is a contraction of "gie iz", where "gie" is "give" and "iz" is a
> singular version of "us".
>
> When it comes to "a ciggy", older Geordie would be "a tab".
> >
>
> --
> Ian


> singular version of "us".

interesting !


I'm a bit thrilled (while watching a Brit movie)
whenever a man tells a woman
(or a woman tells a man)

"Come on luv, give us a kiss!"


afaik, [give us a kiss] is not used in the USA.

HH

[HVS]

FWIW, " give us a kiss" is more generally said (and transcribed) as
"gizza kiss".

--
Cheers, Harvey
CanE (30 years) & BrE (34 years),
indiscriminately mixed