Answer:
The French word for 'fun size' in women's clothing.
To cross the water I'm the way, for water I'm above. I touch it not and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move.
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Long and think, red within, with a nail at the end.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.