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Vinony

finger

verb

  1. blame
  2. branch dendritically
  3. use of fingers to sexually stimulate
  4. to touch
  5. to locate, find
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noun

  1. organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates
  2. assign blame
L3544 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪŋɡəː/ / [ˈfɪŋɡəː] / /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/

name

Etymology: English, German, and Jewish surname, from the noun finger.

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Tennessee.

noun

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.

  1. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.

    “Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.”

    “[M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it.”

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

    “The starfish eats with five fingers.”

  3. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
  4. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
  5. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
  6. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly

    “...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...”

  7. Something similar in shape to the human finger

    “chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers”

    “By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?”

  8. Something similar in shape to the human finger

    “An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.”

  9. Something similar in shape to the human finger
  10. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly

    “a finger of land; a finger of smoke”

  11. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  12. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  13. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  14. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  15. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  16. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  17. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
  18. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

    “The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God.”

  19. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
  20. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
  21. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
  22. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
  23. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.

    “The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.”

  24. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

    “a piece of steel three fingers thick”

  25. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
  26. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
  27. Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

    “Gimme three fingers of bourbon.”

  28. A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
  29. Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.

    “A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger”

  30. Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
  31. A person.
  32. An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
  33. Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
  34. An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).

verb

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.

  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. To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
  3. To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.

    “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.”

  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.”

  5. To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
  6. To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
  7. To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.

    “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).”

  8. To steal; to purloin.

    “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,”

  9. To execute, as any delicate work.