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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A type of paint having the consistency of a thin paste or jelly, which is applied to a surface by dipping fingers into the paint and smearing the paint on the surface, usually in artistic patterns. It is used primarily by children.

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  • noun A form of paint designed to be applied using the fingers, especially by children.
  • verb Alternative spelling of finger paint.

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  • noun paint that has the consistency of jelly

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Examples

  • That’s why it’s called fingerpaint, she pointed out.

    Devlin’s Light Mariah Stewart 1997

  • There is something oddly flat and robotic about a world populated by people who only want to "hook-up" (or "fingerpaint" as the

    TV Envy 2009

  • We've seen everything from apps that regulate your jog with perfectly-timed tunes, sing along with your GPS, immerse you in an another world, sound like T-Pain, fingerpaint with sound, and tackle countless other tasks.

    Eliot Van Buskirk: Untapped Apps: Shape the Future of Music Eliot Van Buskirk 2011

  • Are we genetically programmed through evolution to make dumb choices, like propping up the Harper government, or were we made out of fingerpaint, flour-and-water paste and construction paper by a kindergarten god?

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Rather than looking like soot or rust from outer space, it looked like fingerpaint, like a prank gone very poorly.

    365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • If you don't get the print you want, wipe off the fish with a wet paper towel and go again. squirrelgirl: I think that fingerpaint would be too gooey unless they could be diluted with water ... sort of milk-consistency.

    Art Projects for Anglers 2010

  • We've seen everything from apps that regulate your jog with perfectly-timed tunes, sing along with your GPS, immerse you in an another world, sound like T-Pain, fingerpaint with sound, and tackle countless other tasks.

    Eliot Van Buskirk: Untapped Apps: Shape the Future of Music Eliot Van Buskirk 2011

  • If you don't get the print you want, wipe off the fish with a wet paper towel and go again. squirrelgirl: I think that fingerpaint would be too gooey unless they could be diluted with water ... sort of milk-consistency.

    Art Projects for Anglers 2010

  • All us folks who do art, create poetry and the like, we're just a bunch of little kids with our fingers in the fingerpaint.

    Greg Archer: Chely Wright: GLAAD Is Vitally Important to the Community 2010

  • All us folks who do art, create poetry and the like, we're just a bunch of little kids with our fingers in the fingerpaint.

    Greg Archer: Chely Wright: GLAAD Is Vitally Important to the Community 2010

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    October 10, 2008