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Definition: Fingered |
FingeredAdjective1. Having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination; "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-fingered"; "three-fingered cartoon characters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fingered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
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Literature | Fingered The light-fingered gentry. Priggers, qui ungues hamatos et uncos habent. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Antonym: fingerless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fingered |
| English words defined with "fingered": feel, finger ♦ upper deck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fingered": growler board. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hellboy just fingered me (Haggard; writing credit: Brandon Dicamillo; Hoofbite) But you fingered this guy. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) But make no mistake, the culprits will be fingered. I will finger the culprits (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fingered! (1992) Fingered (1986) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The dim lights fingered the road nervously |
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| "Fingered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 82.52% of the time. "Fingered" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 82.52% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.79% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 6.99% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 143 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fingered": fingered glove ♦ fingered skirt ♦ light fingered ♦ three fingered glove ♦ two fingered gripper. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "fingered": fingered-friend. | |
Ending with "fingered": green-fingered, long-fingered, rosy-fingered, two-fingered. | |
Containing "fingered": five-fingered maidenhair fern, light-fingered pickpocket. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fingered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që vjedh (light fingered), i shkathët nga duart (light fingered), dorëshkathët (light fingered). (various references) | |
Arabic | نشال (light fingered, pick, pickpocket, predator), خفيف اليد (light fingered, pickpocket). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с дълги пръсти (light fingered), крадлив (larcenous, light fingered, thievish), ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), изкусен (adroit, clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, masterful, mean, neat, proficient, scientific, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, technic, technical, tricksy, versed, workmanlike). (various references) | |
Chinese | 手指 (finger). (various references) | |
Czech | lehkoprstý (light fingered), dlouhoprstý (light fingered). (various references) | |
Danish | fingervante (fingered glove, work glove), fingerhandske (fingered glove, work glove), skoert med fingre (finger skirt, fingered skirt), griber med to fingre (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), 3-fingret arbejdshandske (three fingered glove, worker's glove). (various references) | |
Dutch | werkhandschoen (three fingered glove, worker's glove), vingerhandschoen (fingered glove, work glove), tweevingerige grijper (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), schort met vingers (finger skirt, fingered skirt), drievingerhandschoen (three fingered glove, worker's glove), driebladige ereprijs (fingered speedwell), bidigitale grijper (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper). (various references) | |
Finnish | tahmatädyke (fingered speedwell), sormikas (glove), kolmisorminen työhansikas (three fingered glove, worker's glove), kaksisormitarrain (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), hansikas (glove, mitten). (various references) | |
French | voleur la tire (light fingered), véronique feuilles trilobées (fingered speedwell), pince bidigitale (two fingered gripper), jupe doigts (finger skirt, fingered skirt), gants (fingered glove), gant de travail (three fingered glove), gant de main-d'oeuvre (three fingered glove), gant avec doigts (fingered glove), gant doigts (fingered glove), gant 5 doigts (fingered glove), avoir les doigts crochus (light fingered), être chapardeur (light fingered), 3 doigts (three fingered glove). (various references) | |
German | berührte (contacted). (various references) | |
Greek | γάντι με δάκτυλα (fingered glove), βερονίκη η τρίφυλλη (fingered speedwell), εργατικό γάντι (fingered glove, work glove), λαβίδα δύο δακτύλων (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), λαθροχείρ (light fingered, pickpocket), τριδάχτυλο εργατικό γάντι (three fingered glove, worker's glove), διπλή πένσα (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), δακτυλικό τοίχωμα (finger skirt, fingered skirt). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאוצבע (dactylate, digitate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | könnyûkezû (light fingered, light-handed), enyveskezû (light fingered), ügyeskezû (clean-fingered, light fingered, neat-handed), ügyes (able, adept, adroit, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, habile, handy, ingenious, masterly, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, slick, to know how many beans make five, versatile). (various references) | |
Italian | veronica a tre foglie (fingered speedwell), tendina a "dita" (finger skirt, fingered skirt), pinza a due dita (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), guanto digitale (fingered glove, work glove), guanto di lavoro (three fingered glove, worker's glove), grembiule a "dita" (finger skirt, fingered skirt), 3 dita (three fingered glove, worker's glove). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | スプライン軸 (splasher, spline shaft, split, split fingered fast ball, split-run test, sprinkler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | スプリットフィンガーファーストボール (split fingered fast ball). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingeredfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pinça bidigital (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), luva de trabalho (three fingered glove, worker's glove), luva de 5 dedos (fingered glove, work glove), luva de 3 dedos (three fingered glove, worker's glove), luva com dedos (fingered glove). (various references) | |
Romanian | executat la un instrument de percuţie, atins cu degeţel. (various references) | |
Russian | карманник (hustler, light fingered, pickpocket), вороватый (light fingered, thievish), ловкий (adept, adroit, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodgy, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, light-handed, natty, neat, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tactical, tricky). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kradljiv (light fingered), dugih prstiju (light fingered). (various references) | |
Spanish | falda de dedos (finger skirt, fingered skirt), pinza bidigital (bidigital gripper, two fingered gripper), listo de manos (light fingered), guante de trabajo (three fingered glove, worker's glove), guante con 5 dedos (fingered glove, work glove), guante (glove, mitt, mitten), 3 dedos (three fingered glove, worker's glove). (various references) | |
Swedish | långfingrad (light fingered, nimble-fingered). (various references) | |
Turkish | parmaklı (digitate, digitated, toed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), чесний (above board, bona fide, clean-fingered, clean-handed, conscientious, fair, fair dealing, faithful, honest, honorable, honourable, scrupulous, sincere, single minded, stainless, straight, straightforward, upright, white-handed), злодійкуватий (furtive, light fingered, picking). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có hằn vết ngón tay. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Myotis capaccinii, Rana hexadactyla, RM:vespertil da Capaccini, Veronica triphyllos L.. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "fingered": befingered, butterfingered. (additional references) | |
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"Fingered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fendered, Fingari, fingere, fingerends, fingerse, fingure, Fongeru. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fingered" (pronounced fi"nggerd) |
| 5 | -i" ng g er d | lingered. |
| 4 | -ng g er d | angered. |
| 3 | -g er d | beleaguered, laggard, haggard, staggered, sugared, triggered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: definer, dreeing, energid, feeding, feigned, feigner, freeing, fringed, reeding, reefing, refined, reigned. | |
-2 letters: defier, define, denier, dinger, edgier, engird, feeing, fender, ferine, finder, finger, fridge, friend, fringe, gender, girned, nereid, redfin, reding, refind, refine, reined, ringed. | |
-3 letters: defer, deign, diene, diner, dinge, dirge, edger, eider, ender, feign, fidge, fiend, fined, finer, fired, freed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: befringed, deferring, redefying, refeeding. | |
+2 letters: befingered, debriefing, federating, firefanged, frightened, gentrified, greenfield, redefining, reedifying. | |
+3 letters: befriending, centrifuged, debriefings, deflowering, deforesting, forefending, freeloading, overfeeding, predefining, redefeating, redefecting. | |
+4 letters: decertifying, differencing, federalizing, fingerpicked, fragmentized, freestanding, frigidnesses, intergrafted, presignified, reconfigured, underfeeding, ungentrified. | |
+5 letters: confederating, disfigurement, featheredging, fingerprinted, recentrifuged, reidentifying. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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