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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Wet Finger (With a), easily, directly. "D'un tour de main. " The allusion is to the old custom of spinning, in which the spinner constantly wetted the fore-finger with the mouth. "I can bring myself round with a wet finger."- Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xxiii. (and in many other places). "The spirit being grieved and provoked. ... will not return again with a wet finger."- Gouge: Whole Armour of God, p. 458 (1616). "I can find One with a wet finger that is stark blind." Trial of Love and Fortune (1598). Flores. "Canst thou bring me thither? Peasant. With a wet finger." Wisdom of Dr. Dodypoll (1600). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Expression using "WET FINGER": with a wet finger. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "WET FINGER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), cu uşurinţã (easily, in a hurry, like smoke, trippingly, with a wet finger). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: feigner, freeing, integer, reefing, treeing, weeting. | |
-3 letters: engirt, entire, feeing, ferine, feting, finger, fringe, gerent, refine, regent, retine, teeing, tewing, triene, twiner, twinge, weiner, wiener, winger, winter. | |
-4 letters: egret, enter, feign, feint, fewer, finer, genet, genie, genre, green, greet, grief, grift, inert, infer, inter, newer, newie, ngwee, niter, nitre, refit, reign, renew, renig. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-r-t-w" | |
+2 letters: freewriting. | |
+3 letters: freewritings. | |
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