Definitions for fingered

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fingered fin·gered

Spelling: [fing-gerd]

IPA: /ˈfɪŋ gərd/

Fingered is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in fingered (deefginr).

Definitions for fingered

noun

1. any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
2. a part of a glove made to receive a finger.
3. the breadth of a finger as a unit of measurement; digit.
4. the length of a finger: approximately 4½ inches (11 cm).
5. Slang. an informer or spy.
6. something like a finger in form or use, as a projection or pointer:
7. any of various projecting parts of machines.

Idioms

1. burn one's fingers, to suffer injury or loss by meddling or by acting rashly:
2. give (someone) the finger, Slang. to express contempt for by or as by the obscene gesture of pointing the middle finger upward while folding the other fingers against the palm.
3. have a finger in the pie, to have an interest or share in something. to meddle in something.
4. keep one's fingers crossed, to wish for good luck or success, as in a specific endeavor:
5. lay / put one's finger on, to indicate exactly; remember: to discover; locate:
6. not lift a finger, to make not even a small attempt; do nothing:
7. put the finger on, Slang. finger (def 12).
8. slip through one's fingers, to elude one, as an opportunity not taken; escape: to pass or be consumed quickly:
9. snap one's fingers (at), to exhibit disdain or contempt (for):
10. twist / wrap around one's little finger, to exert one's influence easily or successfully upon:

adjective

1. having fingers, especially of a specified kind or number (often used in combination):
2. spoiled or marred by handling, as merchandise.
3. Zoology, Botany. digitate.
4. (of a musical score) marked to show which fingers should be used in playing the notes.

verb (used with object)

1. to touch with the fingers; toy or meddle with; handle.
2. to touch with the fingers so as to mar or spoil:
3. to pilfer; filch.
4. Music. to play on (an instrument) with the fingers. to perform or mark (a passage of music) with a certain fingering.
5. Slang. to inform against or identify (a criminal) to the authorities: to designate as a victim, as of murder or other crime.

verb (used without object)

1. to touch or handle something with the fingers.
2. to extend in or as in the shape of a finger:

Origin of fingered

First recorded in 1520-30; finger + -ed³

Examples for fingered

As he fingered the instrument his hands seemed to have become all eyes.

When they identified another man as a possible accomplice, she fingered Dekhar, who was arrested later than same October.

fingered by Prugo as the ringleader, Lee went to high school with Prugo at Indian Hills where she was voted “Best Dressed.”

The braided one fingered indecisively the broad brim of a gray sombrero.

He fingered the strand on Young Pine's neck, making signs of friendship.

His body was found after the Tsarnaev brothers were fingered as suspects in the bombings.

The former VP is fingered in a massive cash-for-contract scandal in the African country's oil-rich Niger Delta.

Josie fingered the contents of her purse expectantly, but Duncan hung in the wind.

Charles had said as he fingered his throat, which was patched with black and blue.

But the governor also fingered videogames as a possible focus of his coming violence-control plan.