finger-pointy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From finger-point (verb) and finger point (noun) + -y.
Base: finger point#Noun
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more finger-pointy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most finger-pointy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: finger pointy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fingerpointy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of pointing a finger or fingers; prone or tending to point a finger or fingers.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: “She had gold teeth in front, wore a long braid and spoke in argumentative, finger-pointy Cantonese,” Olivia [Wu] remembers.
Eight Hardcore ditties from Belfast’s Spindrift, with a sort of Biohazard/ S.O.I.A vibe… actually, I know fuck all about Hardcore (preferring devil-signs to finger-pointy theatrics), so I’m not sure how to describe this in relation to other acts of that genre.
We pile back into the wagon and head south on I-81 a while more, Mother serving as guide, just as cheerful and finger-pointy as the microphone lady standing at the front of a Tyler rose garden tour bus.
It was a firetrap waiting to happen, really, so in a way Caroline may have saved Ursula’s life by burning the teeny garment to ashes before the sweater actually spontaneously combusted sometime in the future. Which was what Caroline explained to the approximately forty-five firemen who seemed to appear instantly and were getting all finger-pointy and screamy and stuff, not flirty like they are on TV at all, while they were all scowling and fanning the smoke out of their eyes and stepping from island to island among the lakes of water that the stupid drama-queen sprinklers had flooded the place with.
He smiled – just a little one – in my direction before declaring to the room that we would all touch base at ten for a staff meeting and we would see where we could move on from there to get the Star in NorthStar up and shining again. He finished this with a wink and a weird finger-pointy thing and walked on.
The furious exchange that followed, with Barber tottering over to the judges' table all finger-pointy and teary, for a moment looked like it might turn into a pub catfight.
“Do. Not. Interrupt. Me. Your position here is terminated. I will not call the police, and I know that’s a great relief to you whatever you want me to think, but only if you admit what you did. I cannot conscience a liar.” My mother was doing the finger-pointy thing that made you want to sock her; I could see Margaret was thinking about it.
I remember shots, I remember some Jarvis Cocker-style finger-pointy dancing to ‘Disco 2000’.
I was sitting in Pizzaland with my friend, showing her a funny finger-pointy trick my father taught me years ago. A waiter thought I was calling him over. I wasn’t.
gloss: Characterized by finger-pointing (the making of accusations; the assigning of blame); prone or tending to accuse or assign blame.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: Telling too much of the truth so as to expose the naked hand of power and its interests, calling things finger-pointy descriptions like male dominance, white supremacy, capitalism (I repeat, where is the U.S. Left? Did all these people really just disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union?), going too much against the grain, especially against views embraced by the mainstream media—which has taken over much of the function of credentialing the intelligentsia that the academy used to exercise—this is the danger zone.
AVOID THE BLAME GAME. Women who get vindictive or finger-pointy when angry are 31 percent more likely to develop heart problems than those who resolve things more constructively, recent research from Columbia University Medical School in New York City found.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not go and get all finger-pointy. Everyone makes mistakes, right?
The series was an exhalation after a finger-pointy period about men making life terrible for women, but it was also a bit: "We're just like this sometimes, so shut up."
‘YOU HURT ME’: Using the ‘YOU’ language in a fight can feel ‘finger-pointy’ and critical. Instead, consider using ‘I’ language. For example, ‘I felt hurt and sad.’
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