Onychophagic
There's a word for that.
onychophagia / ah-nê-kê-fay-ji-ê / nounThe nervous habit of biting the nails.If you can pronounce it, you probably don't need to do it.
Linguist Robert Beard observes: A nail-biter is an onychophagic (the personal noun) and onychophagic does double duty as the adjective, as in "His onychophagic impulses are so strong, Hans Orf wears gloves and shoes
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