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fingerpoint

fingerpoint is the alternative form of finger point.

fingerpoint is the alternative form of finger-point.

Meaning of finger point

Noun

finger point (plural finger points)

  1. An act of pointing with a finger or fingers; a pointed finger.
    • Hesta the guide drew their attention to points of interest with finger points and hand waves.2000, Elizabeth Stead, “Sea Pictures – the Last Sacrifice”, in The Fishcastle, Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books Australia, →ISBN, page 377
  2. The point of a finger.
    • Then one hand […] round her neck just touching with finger points one of a lovely pair of breasts, […]1888–1894, Walter [pseudonym], chapter III, in My Secret Life, volumes VII–XI, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC, volume IX, page 1781
  3. A piece of land etc. shaped like a finger.
    • At the southern end of the sunken road is a finger point of the green wedge wood and below this lay Falfemont farm, where the British attack stopped yesterday.1916 September 5, Morning Bulletin Leased Wire, “Fierce Fight Is Centering at Falfemont; Artillery Useless and Men Fight with Cold Steel […]”, in The Morning Bulletin, volume VII, number 110...

Meaning of finger-point

Verb

finger-point (third-person singular simple present finger-points, present participle finger-pointing, simple past and past participle finger-pointed)

  1. (intransitive) To point with a finger (at someone or something).
    • He was encouraged to finger-point at words while reading.1975, Eleanor Frances Brown, “Case Studies”, in Bibliotherapy and Its Widening Applications, Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 374
  2. (figuratively, informal, intransitive) To assign blame (to) or accuse (someone or something).
    • As the family crumbles, society finger-points: “First, it was teachers and schools; it must be their fault. Then single mothers; it must be their fault. Now, we’re moving on to fathers,” [Richard] Louv writes.1993 June 17, Beverly Beyette, “In Your (Celebrity) Dreams”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025

Forms of fingerpoint

Noun
pluralfingerpoints
Verb
third-person singular presentfingerpoints
present participlefingerpointing
past participlefingerpointed
pastfingerpointed

Questions about fingerpoint

What is fingerpoint the alternative form of?
Fingerpoint is the alternative form of finger point.

Words near fingerpoint in the dictionary

  1. fingerpicks
  2. fingerplate
  3. fingerplates
  4. fingerplay
  5. fingerplays
  6. fingerpoint
  7. fingerpointed
  8. fingerpointer
  9. fingerpointers
  10. fingerpointing
  11. fingerpointings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fingerpoint (page history and authors); finger point (page history and authors); finger-point (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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