finger
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
sex
sexuality
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”).
Cognate with West Frisian finger, German and Low German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish finger, Faroese and Icelandic fingur; see also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.
Inflected forms:
form: fingers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fingering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fingered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fingered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To identify or point out; to blame for something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This makes it quite difficult to finger specific gene variants, since any one variant contributes only tiny effects.
I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.
gloss: To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Goe, get you gone: and let the papers lye: / You would be fingring them, to anger me.
"They have done a foolish thing," said I, fingering my wineglass.
Alladad Khan, left alone, dandled unhandily his child in unfatherly arms. He wanted to finger his moustache, but could not.
Feeling tender around the face, she fingered herself gingerly. Yes, it was swollen, very sore around the cheekbones, with dried blood on the outsides of her eye sockets, below her nostrils, and below one ear.
gloss: To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
gloss: To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: There is also a hot-link to "finger" the guys at id to see what they're working on next (John Carmack, John Cash […]
PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
gloss: To steal; to purloin.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: in the dark / Grop'd I to finde out them; had my desire, / Finger'd their Packet, and in fine, withdrew / To mine owne roome againe,
gloss: To execute, as any delicate work.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Related words: artiodactyl
dactyl
dactylography
dactylology
fist
macrodactyly
perissodactyl
prestidigitation
pterodactyl
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