Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fingers; one who handles that to which he has no right; a pilferer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who fingers; a pilferer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun offinger ; one who fingers.
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Examples
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Behold his smiling face and say if any telegraph operator could be so slow as to believe him a fingerer of other men's fobs.
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Answer his question faithfully, and you have the relation between the great masters of the Muse's teaching and the pleasant fingerer of his pastoral flute among the reeds of Rydal.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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Answer his question faithfully, and you have the relation between the great masters of the Muse's teaching, and the pleasant fingerer of his pastoral flute among the reeds of Rydal.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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I haven't seen talent wasted like this since Rip Torn played Freddy's alleged fingerer.
Pajiba 2009
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