fingers
Syllables: fin·gersUK/ˈfɪŋɡəz//ˈfɪŋɡɚz/
fingers is the plural of finger.
fingers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of finger.
Meaning of finger
Noun
finger (plural fingers)
- A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals.
- Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
- Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly
- The starfish eats with five fingers.1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, “The How and Why Library”, in Life, Section VIII
- 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).
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly
- ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, page 250
Phrases with fingers
- big fingers
- ear fingers
- fat fingers
- old fingers
- the fingers
- two fingers
- baby fingers
- cold fingers
- fish fingers
- five fingers
- foam fingers
- four fingers
159 more phrasesFewer phrases
- fuck fingers
- gold fingers
- long fingers
- ring fingers
- zinc fingers
- angel fingers
- board fingers
- dirty fingers
- dog's fingers
- first fingers
- green fingers
- index fingers
- piano fingers
- pinky fingers
- point fingers
- pussy fingers
- skirt fingers
- split fingers
- third fingers
- butter fingers
- fourth fingers
- garlic fingers
- king's fingers
- lady's fingers
- little fingers
- mallet fingers
- middle fingers
- physic fingers
- pinkie fingers
- points fingers
- Scotch fingers
- spirit fingers
- sponge fingers
- sticky fingers
- two fingers up
- zombie fingers
- chicken fingers
- crossed fingers
- devil's fingers
- fingers crossed
- ladies' fingers
- medical fingers
- pointed fingers
- pointer fingers
- sausage fingers
- showing fingers
- trigger fingers
- wedding fingers
- fingers and toes
- fuck-you fingers
- give the fingers
- in one's fingers
- marriage fingers
- nameless fingers
- physical fingers
- pointing fingers
- fingers in a dike
- medicinal fingers
- mercurial fingers
- physician fingers
- burn one's fingers
- dead man's fingers
- dead men's fingers
- fingers and thumbs
- fingers in the air
- have green fingers
- one's fingers itch
- put two fingers up
- snap one's fingers
- burns one's fingers
- burnt one's fingers
- click one's fingers
- crack one's fingers
- cross one's fingers
- fingers in the dike
- fingers in the dyke
- fingers in the wind
- fingers to the wind
- snap of the fingers
- snaps one's fingers
- burned one's fingers
- click of the fingers
- fingers on the pulse
- fingers to the winds
- out of one's fingers
- snaps of the fingers
- stick two fingers up
- within one's fingers
- clicks of the fingers
- crossed one's fingers
- crosses one's fingers
- itchy trigger fingers
- snapped one's fingers
- all fingers and thumbs
- Chinese middle fingers
- crossing one's fingers
- get one's fingers into
- get one's fingers onto
- got one's fingers into
- red dead man's fingers
- snapping one's fingers
- get one's fingers burnt
- gets one's fingers into
- got one's fingers burnt
- fingers and toes crossed
- gets one's fingers burnt
- long betwixt the fingers
- fingers in the cookie jar
- gotten one's fingers into
- getting one's fingers into
- gotten one's fingers burnt
- keep one's fingers crossed
- kept one's fingers crossed
- look through one's fingers
- lords' and ladies' fingers
- putty in someone's fingers
- getting one's fingers burnt
- keeps one's fingers crossed
- fingers pointing at the moon
- had one's fingers all thumbs
- has one's fingers all thumbs
- in the snap of one's fingers
- one's fingers are all thumbs
- had one's fingers in the till
- has one's fingers in the till
- have one's fingers all thumbs
- keeping one's fingers crossed
- fingers were made before forks
- had fingers made of lime-twigs
- had one's fingers in many pies
- had one's fingers on the pulse
- has fingers made of lime-twigs
- has one's fingers in many pies
- has one's fingers on the pulse
- have one's fingers in the till
- slip through someone's fingers
- work one's fingers to the bone
- have fingers made of lime-twigs
- have one's fingers in many pies
- have one's fingers on the pulse
- having one's fingers all thumbs
- Roman hands and Russian fingers
- slips through someone's fingers
- works one's fingers to the bone
- count on the fingers of one hand
- having one's fingers in the till
- how many fingers am I holding up
- let one's fingers do the walking
- worked one's fingers to the bone
- be able to count on one's fingers
- counts on the fingers of one hand
- having fingers made of lime-twigs
- having one's fingers in many pies
- having one's fingers on the pulse
- slipped through someone's fingers
- working one's fingers to the bone
- counted on the fingers of one hand
- slipping through someone's fingers
- counting on the fingers of one hand
Questions about fingers
- What is fingers the plural of?
- Fingers is the plural of finger.
- How do you pronounce fingers?
- Fingers is pronounced /ˈfɪŋɡɚz/ (US).
Words near fingers in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fingers (page history and authors); finger (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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