Definitions

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  • noun Plural form of finger.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finger.

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Examples

  • Somebody calls it _fingers_, and that is just what it is, long fingers of dawn, always pale, always gray and white, stealing in and around my pillow for me.

    Crowded Out! and Other Sketches 1897

  • Yes | No | Report from wildcaller11 wrote 15 hours 18 min ago gloves that cover your fingers is the only way to go

    do you think the ragg wool half finger gloves would be a good ice fishing glove 2010

  • Yes | No | Report from wildcaller11 wrote 15 hours 18 min ago gloves that cover your fingers is the only way to go

    do you think the ragg wool half finger gloves would be a good ice fishing glove 2010

  • That seemed to stump all of them for a minute, so I had time to tap on the number 6, followed by the word fingers , then I pushed play so they could all hear my answer.

    out of my mind SHARON M. DRAPER 2010

  • That seemed to stump all of them for a minute, so I had time to tap on the number 6, followed by the word fingers , then I pushed play so they could all hear my answer.

    out of my mind SHARON M. DRAPER 2010

  • That seemed to stump all of them for a minute, so I had time to tap on the number 6, followed by the word fingers , then I pushed play so they could all hear my answer.

    out of my mind SHARON M. DRAPER 2010

  • That seemed to stump all of them for a minute, so I had time to tap on the number 6, followed by the word fingers , then I pushed play so they could all hear my answer.

    out of my mind SHARON M. DRAPER 2010

  • Peter, yep, licking your fingers is an essential part of this dish!

    Seven Seafoods 2007: Recipe for Spicy Pesto Grilled Shrimp (Γαρίδες με Πικάντικο Πέστο) Laurie Constantino 2007

  • M. Gutmann is a pianist with a neat but somewhat cold style of playing; he has what one calls fingers, and uses them with much dexterity.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian fish and chips proper (by which I mean not involving the word fingers until tragically late in life, in part because of a shameful childish antipathy towards things with fins, but mostly because I'm embarrassingly middle class (coq au vin, yes.

    The Guardian World News Felicity Cloake 2011

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  • The parts of the body that fing, obviously.

    January 17, 2008