Finger

Noun

 * 1)  One of the long extremities of the hand. Sometimes excludes the thumb.
 * Human hands have 5 fingers: the thumb, the forefinger (or index finger), the middle finger, the ring finger and the little finger.
 * 1) * Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,
 * We have five senses and five fingers and five toes. The starfish eats with five fingers.
 * 1) * Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81, 1916:
 * 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.
 * 1) A piece of food resembling such an extremity.
 * chocolate fingers
 * 1) (also finger pier) A walkway extending from a dock, an airport terminal, etc, used by passengers to board a waiting ship or aeroplane.

Derived terms

 * at one's fingertips
 * burn one's fingers
 * butterfingers
 * cross one's fingers
 * fat-finger
 * finger alphabet
 * finger bowl
 * finger buffet
 * finger chip
 * finger dry
 * finger food
 * finger language
 * finger mark
 * finger millet
 * finger painting
 * finger pick
 * finger post
 * finger roll
 * finger wave
 * fingerboard
 * fingered
 * fingering


 * fingerling
 * fingermark
 * fingernail
 * finger-paint
 * fingerpicking
 * fingerplate
 * fingerpost
 * fingerprint
 * fingerspelling
 * fingerstall
 * fingertip
 * finger-wagging
 * fish finger
 * five-finger discount
 * forefinger
 * get one's finger out
 * get one's fingers onto
 * give the finger to
 * have a finger in every pie
 * have one's fingers in many pies
 * have one's fingers in the till
 * index finger


 * ladyfinger
 * lay a finger on
 * lift a finger
 * little finger
 * long finger
 * middle finger
 * one's fingers itch
 * point the finger at
 * pull one's finger on
 * put the finger on
 * putty in someone's fingers
 * ring finger
 * skirt finger
 * slip through one's fingers
 * snap one's fingers
 * split finger
 * sticky fingers
 * trigger finger
 * wag a finger (at)
 * work one's fingers to the bone
 * wrap around one's fingers
 * zinc finger

Verb

 * 1)  To identify or point out. Ex.: put the finger on To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, to finger.
 * 2)  To poke or probe with a finger.
 * 3) * 2009, Win Blevins, Dreams Beneath Your Feet, page 135:
 * 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.
 * 1)  To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus.
 * 2) * 2007, Madeline Bastinado, A Talent for Surrender, page 201:
 * She fingered him, spreading the gel and sliding the tip of her finger inside him.
 * 1) * 2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:
 * 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.
 * 1)  To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
 * 2)  To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.

Verbs for Finger
beckon with—; bend—; cramp—; cut—; distend—; drum with—; extend—; level— at; prick—; snap—s; — clutch;— fly; —fumble with; — hover near; — twist; —twitch.

Adverbs for Finger
significantly; nervously; delicately; tremulously; feverishly; tremblingly; intimately; lingeringly; caressingly; fumblingly; rheumatically; lustfully; authoritatively; cannily; agilely.

Thesaurus
accuse, acquire, advert to, allege, allude to, annulary, appoint, arraign, article, be master of, be taken as, bear witness, betray, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, bring to mind, buy, call to mind, charge, cite, claws, clutches, come by, come in contact, complain, condemn to death, dactylion, denominate, denote, denounce, denunciate, designate, determinate, diagnose, digit, digits, disappear, discover, distinguish, do something, dominate, elude, emblematize, escape, fangs, fasten on, fasten upon, feel, feel of, figure, figure in, find, fingernails, fingers, flick, forefinger, get away, get cracking, get hold of, handle, hands, hang something on, have under control, hit, hooks, identify, impeach, imply, impute, index, index finger, indicate, indict, influence, inform against, inform on, insinuate, jaws, lay charges, little finger, locate, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, lord it over, make, make a move, make an attempt, make an effort, mandibles, manipulate, maxillae, meathooks, medius, middle finger, minimus, mitts, monkey with, nails, name, nippers, nominate, offer, palm, palpate, paw, pick out, pin down, pin on, pincers, pinkie, pinpoint, place, ply, point at, point out, point to, poke at, pollex, pounces, prefer charges, press charges, prod, punch, purchase, put on report, recall, recognize, recollect, refer to, remember, report, reproach, ring finger, select, snitch on, specify, spot, stand for, stigmatize, strike, symbol, symbolize, take to task, talons, tap, task, tattle on, taunt with, tax, teeth, tell on, think of, thumb, touch, track down, twiddle, twit, typify, unearth, unguals, ungulae, vanish, wield, zero in on

Etymology
finger:, from (compare West Frisian/German Finger:, Dutch vinger:), from  'fifth' (compare Old Irish cóicer: 'set of five people', Old Armenian հինգերորդ:), from *pénkʷe 'five'. More at five.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (’úSba3)
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: hatz
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Gan:
 * Mandarin: 手指 (shǒuzhǐ)
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: сур (sur), кедь сур (ked sur)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, näpp
 * Faroese: fingur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: उंगली (u.nglī)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, putti
 * Ido: fingro
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 指 (ゆび, yubí)
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: бармақ
 * Khakas:
 * Komi: чунь (chunj)
 * Korean: 손가락 (son-garak)
 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: til ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: pirksts
 * Laz:


 * Lithuanian: pirštas
 * Luhya: ,
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Mongolian: хуруу
 * Nahuatl: mapili
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Ojibwe:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Frisian: finger
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnolo: dòit
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian: ,
 * Salar:
 * Sami: suorbma
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: prst
 * Sicilian: jiritu, itu
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: monwana
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: விரல்
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: వేలు (vaelu)
 * Thai: นิ้ว
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: barmak
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: (u.nglī)
 * Uyghur: بارماق
 * Uzbek: barmoq
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: doat
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: finger
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:


 * Danish:
 * Faroese: fingur
 * Finnish: puikko, tikku
 * Icelandic: fingur


 * Italian:
 * Latvian: pirksts


 * Hebrew: רציף,


 * :, bizied
 * : kuã
 * : kuã


 * : digito
 * : poã
 * : poã

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Gan:
 * Danish: udpege, pege på
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Macedonian: покажува, посочува, укажува


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: указать (ukazát’), показать (pokazát’)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: peka ut, utpeka
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: chỉ ra, chỉ đến


 * Chinese:
 * Gan:
 * Danish: fingerere, famle ved
 * Dutch: vingeren (only used for fondling the vagina),
 * Finnish:, ,


 * French:
 * Russian: ткнуть (tknut’)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Icelandic:


 * Danish: angive fingersætning i
 * French:


 * Vietnamese: đánh, bấm (a); ghi cách bấm (b)

Related terms

 * artiodactyl
 * dactyl
 * dactylography
 * dactylology
 * fingle
 * macrodactyly
 * perissodactyl
 * prestidigitation
 * pterodactyl
 * terradactyl

Anagrams

 * fringe

Etymology 1
From fingr:.

Noun

 * 1) finger

Etymology 2
See fingere:.

Etymology
Old High German fingar

Noun
Finger m


 * 1) finger

Related terms

 * -fingerig, -fingrig
 * fingern


 * gefingert

Compounds

 * Fingerabdruck
 * Fingerfertig
 * Fingerhandschuh
 * Fingernagel


 * Fingerschale
 * Fingerspitze
 * Fingersprache
 * Fingerzeig

Etymology
From fingr:.

Noun

 * 1) finger

Etymology
, which is from, a suffixed form of ''.

Noun
finger


 * 1) finger

Noun

 * 1)  finger; a body part

Derived terms

 * fingerled
 * fingra
 * lillfinger
 * långfinger
 * pekfinger
 * ringfinger

Noun
finger ( fingers)


 * 1) finger