finger

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

fingers

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

finger

past (v2)

fingered

past participle (v3)

fingered

present participle

fingering

3rd person singular

fingers

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals.

   • Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
   • Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.

2. 2.Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly

   • The starfish eats with five fingers.

3. 3.Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

4. 4.Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To identify or point out; to blame for something.

   • 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.

2. 2.To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.

3. 3.To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.

   • "They have done a foolish thing," said I, fingering my wineglass.
   • Goe, get you gone: and let the papers lye: / You would be fingring them, to anger me.
   • Alladad Khan, left alone, dandled unhandily his child in unfatherly arms. He wanted to finger his moustache, but could not.

4. 4.To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.

   • 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.

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