finger
/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ verb C2- To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- To use the fingers to sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
He/she/it fingers · Past fingered · Past participle fingered · -ing form fingering
Verb forms
- Base form
- finger
- He/she/it
- fingers
- Past
- fingered
- Past participle
- fingered
- -ing form
- fingering
From the library
“Very interesting reading it might be made, too,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plaster over the prick on his finger.
“Jean Baptiste Greuze,” Holmes continued, joining his finger tips and leaning well back in his chair, “was a French artist who flourished between the years 1750 and 1800.
But one of the tree’s prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit.
Master always wore his plain gold wedding ring on the little finger of his left hand.
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