Meanings
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1
noun
One of the four long thin parts at the end of the hand, sometimes including the thumb.
She wore a gold ring on her left finger.
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2
noun
A long thin piece of food shaped like a finger.
The children ate fish fingers for lunch.
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3
verb
To touch or handle something with the fingers.
He nervously fingered the coins in his pocket.
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Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.