Light-fingered

Date "light-fingered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Light-fingered

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	LIGHT-FINGERED. Thievish, apt to pilfer. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonym: Light-fingered

Synonym: nimble-fingered (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Light-fingered

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Stealing	Adjective: thieving; Verb: thievish, light-fingered; furacious, furtive; piratical; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial; (rapacious).
Thief	Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Light-fingered

English words defined with "light-fingered": nimble-fingered. (references)

Specialty definitions using "light-fingered": LIGHT-FINGERED, Light-fingered Gentry. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Light-fingered

Domain	Title
Books	The Light-Fingered Lady (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Light-fingered

"Light-fingered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Light-fingered" is used about 11 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Light-fingered

Language		Translations for "light-fingered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		光手指. (various references)

Finnish		näpistelyyn taipuvainen. (various references)

Hungarian		zsebtolvajok (light-fingered gentry). (various references)

Indonesian		panjang tangan (prone to thievery). (various references)

Manx		mynvraddagh, myngyragh (thieving, thievish), laue-eddrym, corragagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ight-fingeredlay

Russian		нечистый на руку. (various references)

Thai		ที่มีความสามารถในการลักเล็กขโมยน้อย, มือเบา. (various references)

Vietnamese		tài xoáy, nhanh tay tài ăn cắp, khéo tay (adroit, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, neat-handed, nimble-fingered, skilful, workmanlike). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Light-fingered"

Words rhyming with "light-fingered" (pronounced 'Light"-fin`gered'): Butter-fingered, Web-fingered. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Light-fingered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-g-g-h-i-i-l-n-r-t"
	-3 letters: delighting, freighting, frightened, gentrified, interfiled, lightering, refighting, relighting.
	-4 letters: delighter, deterging, dithering, fidgeting, filigreed, filtering, firelight, flightier, flighting, freighted, frighting, gelignite, infertile, infielder, infighter, inherited, interfile, lengthier, lightened, lightener, lightered, nightlife, reediting, regilding, reignited, relighted, ridgeline, ridgeling, telfering.
	-5 letters: defiling, definite, deleting, dighting, diligent, drifting, engirdle, fidgeter, fielding, fighting, fileting, filigree, filtered, filthier.
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