One such pitch was "Hangnail" - a CGI film about hangnails. Potemkin's habits included biting his nails, to the point where he developed hangnail. Mrs. Raskin seeks out Greene for medical attention for a hangnail. She again has a hangnail, and complains about how painful it is. Hangnail was a Christian punk band from Kenosha, Wisconsin, formed in 1993. The original meaning of "hangnail" referred to a corn on the foot. In 2016 her novel "Castle Hangnail" won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. That name, in turn, comes from the Latin "reduvia", meaning "hangnail" or "remnant".