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finger
English
Etymology
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”) (compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish finger), from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós, *penk?-ros (“fifth”) (compare Old Irish cóicer (“set of five people”), Old Armenian ??????-??? (hinger-ord, “fifth”)), from *pénk?e (“five”). More at five.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????/
- (General American) enPR: f?ng?-g?r, IPA(key): /?f????/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?f????/
- Rhymes: -????(?)
- Hyphenation: fin?ger
Noun
finger (plural fingers)
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- 1916, The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:
- Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
- 1916, The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,
- The starfish eats with five fingers.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, p. 250:
- ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
- By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
- 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- 1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, p. 318:
- An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.
- 1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, p. 318:
- (Britain regional, botany, usually in in the plural, obsolete) Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, p. 250:
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- a finger of land; a finger of smoke
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Exodus 8:19:
- The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God.
- (obsolete) Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
- (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (figuratively) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Exodus 8:19:
- (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 1?16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- a piece of steel three fingers thick
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (historical) Synonym of digit: 1?12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 1?16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
- 1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary
- A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger
- 1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (Britain slang) A person.
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- (vulgar) The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
Synonyms
- (anatomy): See Thesaurus:finger
- (zoology): toe (when on four legs); claw, talon (usually sharp)
- (finger-shaped objects): tendril (in plants)
- (airport walkway): See jet bridge
- (finger width): See digit
- (slang for police informer): See Thesaurus:informant
- (skill with the fingers): fingering technique; touch
- (British slang for person): bloke, lad, boy, guv
Hyponyms
- (anatomy): index finger, forefinger; middle finger; ring finger; little finger, pinkie; thumb, hallux
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: finga
Translations
See finger/translations § Noun.
Verb
finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)
- (transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
- 2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:
- She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
- 2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- 1996, "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware, comp.archives.msdos.d, Usenet:
- PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
- 1996, "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware, comp.archives.msdos.d, Usenet:
- (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
- (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.
Synonyms
- (to identify or point out): inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
- (sexual): fingerbang, fingerfuck
Translations
See also
- artiodactyl
- dactyl
- dactylography
- dactylology
- fist
- macrodactyly
- perissodactyl
- prestidigitation
- pterodactyl
References
- "finger, n., in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
- fringe
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fen??r/, [?fe???]
Noun
finger c (singular definite fingeren, plural indefinite fingre)
- finger
Inflection
Further reading
- finger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2
See fingere (“to simulate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fen??e?r/, [?fe???e????], [?fe???e???]
Verb
finger or fingér
- imperative of fingere
Middle English
Noun
finger
- Alternative form of fynger
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Noun
finger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingre or fingrer, definite plural fingrene)
- (anatomy) a finger
Derived terms
Related terms
- tommel
References
- “finger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Noun
finger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingrar, definite plural fingrane)
- (anatomy) a finger
Derived terms
Related terms
- tommel
References
- “finger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, which is from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós, *penk?-ros, a suffixed form of *pénk?e (“five”). Compare Old Frisian finger, Old Saxon fingar, Old High German fingar, Old Norse fingr, Gothic ???????????????????????? (figgrs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fin.?er/, [?fi?.?er]
Noun
finger m
- finger
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: fynger, finger, vinger, fyngir, fyngur, fyngyr, fiyngir, ffynger
- English: finger
- Sranan Tongo: finga
- Scots: finger
- Yola: vinger
- English: finger
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *penk?rós.
Noun
finger m
- finger
Inflection
Descendants
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: fanger
- West Frisian: finger
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi???r/
Noun
finger m
- finger
Declension
or (with neuter gender)
Descendants
- Swedish: finger
Spanish
Etymology
From English finger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fin?e?/, [?f??.?e?]
- Hyphenation: fin?ger
Noun
finger m (plural fingeres)
- (food) finger
- (aviation, travel) jet bridge
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish finger, from Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f????r/
Noun
finger n or c
- (anatomy) a finger (the body part)
Declension
Usage notes
The neuter declension is much more common than the common declension.
Derived terms
See also
- hand
- knoge
- nagel
- tumme
References
- finger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f???r/
Noun
finger c (plural fingers, diminutive fingerke)
- finger
Further reading
- “finger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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squeeze
English
Etymology
From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cw?san, cw?san (“to crush, squeeze”), of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”). The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested by 1980.
The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skwi?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Verb
squeeze (third-person singular simple present squeezes, present participle squeezing, simple past squeezed or (nonstandard) squoze, past participle squeezed or (nonstandard) squozen)
- (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- I squeezed the ball between my hands.
- Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1:
- "Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back.
- (transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
- I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.
- Can you squeeze through that gap?
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- Could he not squeeze under the seat of a carriage? He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.
- (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- He squeezed some money out of his wallet.
- (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.
Synonyms
- (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
squeeze (plural squeezes)
- A close or tight fit.
- (figuratively) A difficult position.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
- (slang) A romantic partner.
- 1988, James Ellroy, Dudley Smith Trio: The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz, Random House (?ISBN), page 459:
- He spent nights cruising queer bars near the pad, saw Wiltsie at the dives, but always in the company of his squeeze, a guy he called 'Duane.'
- 2012, J. Lamar, Tip Tap Toe, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 141:
- His young squeeze had just backed out and had not seen the assault on her “ sugar daddy” when it happened!
- 2014, N. Lombardi Jr., Journey Towards a Falling Sun, John Hunt Publishing (?ISBN)
- But even considering that, he might have been a bit more restrained if he hadn't run into his former sexy squeeze, Penny Atieno.
- 1988, James Ellroy, Dudley Smith Trio: The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz, Random House (?ISBN), page 459:
- (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 65:
- Nollekens, finding his wife always benefited by these visits, never refused White a squeeze of a patera, or any thing that would answer his purpose; […] White […] had turned his wine-cellars into manufactories for the produce of cast coins, and moderns squeezes from Roman lamps.
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 65:
- (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- (dated) The situation experienced by a middleman when pressured from both sides, especially financially.
- (dated) A bribe, fee, or extortionary price paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe or fee.
Translations
See also
- squash
- squeegee
- squish
- margin squeeze
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